Fiona Eva Bakas, PhD, is a critical tourism researcher with international teaching experience. She holds a PhD in Tourism (Otago University, 2014), has 20 years of varied work experience (corporate and academic), and is currently a lecturer at Lusofona University, Lisbon. In 2017-2020 she was a contracted postdoctoral researcher in a nation-wide project on creative tourism in rural areas and small cities (CREATOUR), at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and in 2014-2017 she conducted research into gender in tourism labour and into festivals and events at The University of Aveiro. Fiona is a member of research groups: GOVCOPP (Aveiro), and ETEM (University of the Aegean). Her research interests are: creative and cultural tourism, gender in tourism labour, qualitative methodologies, cultural mapping, handicrafts, entrepreneurship, rural tourism, and ecotourism. For an updated list of my publications, please visit: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5699-8178