Biography

PhD in Geography (Regional and Local Planning) from the University of Lisbon, Carlos Ferreira worked, from 1991 to 2008, in a consultancy firm, on spatial planning, tourism strategies, local/regional development, policy/project assessment. Carlos Ferreira is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal, focusing on tourism planning and development; social tourism; tourism geographies; leisure and tourism facing demographic ageing; Big Data and tourist mobilities. Carlos Ferreira is an invited teacher in several post-graduate (PhD and Master) programmes and responsible for 18 completed or ongoing PhD and Master supervisions. As a consultant or academic Carlos Ferreira coordinated several research projects/studies, both national and international. Published over 15 peer reviewed papers, 16 sections of books and 2 books.

Publications related to tourism (general)

• • Encalada, Luís, FERREIRA, Carlos C., Boavida-Portugal, Inês, Rocha, Jorge (2019), Mining Big Data for Tourist Hot Spots: Geographical Patterns of Online Footprints. In: Koutsopoulos K., de Miguel González R., Donert K. (eds), Geospatial Challenges in the 21st Century. Key Challenges in Geography (EUROGEO Book Series). Springer, Cham, pp. 99-123. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04750-4_6

 

• • Encalada, Luís; FERREIRA, Carlos C.; Rocha, Jorge; Boavida-Portugal, Inês (2018), Geographical Patterns in the Tourist City: GIS for Spatiotemporal Analysis. In: Chaudhuri, Somnath & Ray, Nilanjan, “GIS Applications in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry”, IGI Global. Pp. 76-97. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5088-4.ch004

 

• • Simões, José M.; FERREIRA, Carlos C. (2017), Sol, mar e praia: da vilegiatura balnear à reinvenção do produto turístico. In: UMBELINO, Jorge & SILVA, Francisco (Eds.), “Planeamento e desenvolvimento turístico”, Lisboa: Lidel – Edições Técnicas Lda. pp. 221-228.

 

• • Boavida-Portugal, I., FERREIRA, C. C., Rocha, J. (2017). Where to vacation? An agent-based approach to modelling tourist decision-making process, Current Issues in Tourism, 20(15), pp. 1557-1574.

 

• • Encalada, L., Boavida-Portugal, I., CARDOSO FERREIRA, C., & Rocha, J. (2017). Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City. Sustainability, 9(12), 2317. MDPI AG.
  • Boavida-Portugal, I., Rocha, J., FERREIRA, C. C. (2016). Exploring the impacts of future tourism development on land use/cover changes, Applied Geography. Volume 77, December 2016, Pages 82–91. (2015 Impact Factor: 2.565)

Publications related to social tourism

• • Diekmann, A., McCabe, S & FERREIRA, C.C. (2018). Social tourism: research advances, but stasis in policy. Bridging the divide. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 10(3), 181-188, DOI: 10.1080/19407963.2018.1490859

 

• • FERREIRA, C.; Alcântara, A. (2014). Tourism and risk perception and management among senior travellers: shaping travel patterns and behaviours. in Proceedings of the ATLAS annual conference 2014 "Tourism, Travel and Leisure: Sources of Wellbeing, Happiness and Quality of Life", Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 October, 2014 - Extended Abstracts, pp. 14-17. ISBN: 978-90-75775-70-9

 

• • CEDRU/BCG (2008) Study to Address the Needs of Senior People in Portugal. (Coord. Geral: Carlos Ferreira). Lisboa: Fundação Aga Khan, 323 pag. [acedido em 09 de Julho de 2013]. http://www.akdn.org/publications/2008_portugal_estudo%20seniores.pdf
  • FERREIRA, Carlos (2006), “Portugal, destino turístico da população idosa europeia. Abordagem geográfica do turismo sénior internacional”, Colecção Temas de Turismo, Nº 6, Turismo de Portugal, I.P., 386 pag. (ISBN 972-99590-4-8 / DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4335.6565).