Carla Melo

Carla Melo graduated in Management and Planning in Tourism, Master in Information Management, Specialist in Tourism and PhD student in Tourism at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Netherlands. She is currently an Adjunct Guest Professor at the School of Hospitality and Tourism of the Polytechnic of Porto. Her priority areas of research are transformative tourism experiences, creative tourism, yoga tourism, gastronomic tourism, and tourism education.

Publications

Fostering Pedagogical Innovation in Tourism Education Through Experiential Learning: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit
Dr Sandra Vieira Vasconcelos, Carla Melo, António Melo. © 2023. 20 pages.
Due to its service-oriented nature, Tourism and Hospitality Education relies heavily on experimental learning (EL) approaches, that focus on real-word challenges and can...
Transforming Tourism Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainable Tourism Management
Sandra Vieira Vasconcelos, Carla Melo. © 2022. 20 pages.
The chapter describes an interdisciplinary project that was designed and implemented within the scope of a Tourist Activities Management degree whose main topic was...
Transformational Tourism Experiences: The Communication of Service Providers
Carla Melo, Greg Richards, Melanie Kay Smith. © 2021. 24 pages.
Transformational tourism is an emergent research field, reflecting a broader paradigm shift that encompasses changes in tourist profiles that challenge tourism businesses to...
(Re)acting to the COVID-19 Crisis in Hotels: The Perceptions of Portuguese Managers
António Melo, Sandra Vieira Vasconcelos, Carla Melo, Miguel Silva. © 2021. 24 pages.
Aiming to provide an overview of the hospitality sector in Portugal amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in this chapter, the authors call on hotel managers and their perceptions to...