Fiona Eva Bakas, PhD, is a critical tourism researcher with international teaching experience. She holds a PhD in Tourism (Otago University, NZ, 2015), has 20 years of varied work experience (corporate and academic), and is currently an assistant professor at IGOT (Geography Institute) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. In 2020-24 Fiona was a tourism lecturer at Lusofona University and during 2021-22, she was also a visiting lecturer at Dalarna University, Sweden. Fiona has completed two postdoctoral research positions: 1) 2017-2020 -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 2) 2014-2017 - research into gender in tourism labour and into festivals and events at The University of Aveiro. Fiona is a member of research group TERRITUR (University of Lisbon); is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence in Food, Tourism & Leisure (Deree, The American College of Greece); is Associated Researcher of the CREATOUR Observatory (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and is a Member of American Higher Education Alliance (AHEA). Fiona also has industry memberships and is Member of Culture for Change (Greece) and Associate Member of NGO Equality in Tourism (UK). 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