Elisabeth Kastenholz completed her phd thesis in Tourism in 2002 by the Universidade de Aveiro, her master in Business Administration in 1997 by Instituto Superior de EStudos Empresariais/ Porto, her Licenciatura (5 years graduate course) in Tourism Management and Planning in 1993 by the Universidade de Aveiro and a Bachelor in Public Administration / Specialization in International Relations in 1987 by the German Federal Highschool of Public Administration. She did all her schooling in Germany (including the Abitur/ a-levels). Today she serves as Associate Professor, with Habilitation, at the Universidade de Aveiro, was recently appointed International Mobility Coordinator for Tourism Studies at the Universidade de Aveiro, is Member of the Department's (of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Toruism) Board and of the Scientific Commission of the phd Program in Tourism at the Universidade de Aveiro. She has before served as coordinator of the first and second cycles in Tourism Studies, as well as coordinating the phd program in Marketing and Strategy aat the same university. She published over 136 articles in scientific journals, over 93 section(s)/ chapters of books and 8 book(s). She has actively supported several journals, both as member of the editorial board and scientific committee, and as pubctual reviewer (not all is reflected on the platform). She has (co)organized more than 16 more relevant scientific event(s) (several of regional level and more modest scope are not presented on the platform). She has actively engaged in supervision of students' research projects, with 24 PhD theses (co-supervision of another 3), supervision of 46 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervision of 10. She has received 11 awards and/or honors and was identified as belonging to the 2% most cited in her research field, worldwide (study by the University of Stanford). She has participated as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 1 project, Principal investigator in 7 project(s) and Researcher in 9 project(s). She mainly works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Other Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary studies. In their professional activities she interacted with numerous collaborator(s) in co-authorship of scientific papers, mostly as a consequence of research project collaboration and supervisions. Her research focus have lied in sustainability-enhancing tourism destination marketing, consumer behaviour in tourism (focus on destination image and destination experience, but also time-space behavior, co-creation experiences, and social interaction), sustainable tourism, accessible tourism, rural tourism and related topics like food & wine, slow and nature-based tourism. She has actively supported academy, not only by reviewing for the journals in which she assumes the role of editorial board member, but also through regular reviewing for other journals and conferences. She has also participated actively in many dozens international conferences (with keynotes, communications, moderations and organization of special tracks). She has served in several dozens of academic juris for evaluation of phd and master research projects, as well as in evaluating and self-evaluating courses in higher education.