Born in 1982 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Graduated in Sociology with a major in Social Politics at Minho University, a Postgraduate Degree in Marketing and Communication at Leiria Superior School of Education and Social Science and a Executive Master Management in Digital Transformation at Católica Lisbon Business & Economics.
From 2008 to 2011 was a Communication and Marketing Consultant at Portobay Hotels & Resorts.
Member of the Portuguese National Assembly since 2011, she became Member of the European Parliament in 2014. Won in 2016 the MEP Awards for her work in the category of Tourism. She is the EPP coordinator of the Steering Group of the Tourism Task Force at TRAN Committee, Vice - President of the working Group on Tourism at SMEs Europe, Vice- President on Outermost Regions of the SEARICA working Group member on the Fisheries Committee.
Covid-19 outbreak has paralysed the entire EU tourism sector, putting its ecosystem under unprecedented pressure. Former crisis show us that tourism and travel is the most […]
Expedia Group, the global travel platform and Accor, a world leading hospitality group, in conjunction with the UNESCO, are joining forces to further extend the UNESCO […]
Plastic is everywhere. One look in your cupboards will probably suffice to see that we live in a world where almost everything comes packaged. On trip […]
To ensure that Sentosa Island in Singapore continues to develop as a sustainable leisure destination, Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) will transform the resort island into a […]
Today the European Travel Commission (ETC), representing 32 national tourism organizations in Europe, has published a new handbook ‘Sustainable Tourism Implementation: Framework and Toolkit’ – an […]
The European Tourism Manifesto alliance, which represents over 60 European travel & tourism stakeholders covering the whole value chain of travel operations across Europe, has called […]
On the south-eastern edge of Paris next to the 1950s Olympiad towers is La Petite Fabrique (the Little Factory), an experimental and innovative eco-build. With the construction […]
Circular economy is based on the idea of using waste rather than raw materials to create new products, leaving behind the traditional and unsustainable linear economy […]
Visit Portugal is launching a new campaign aimed at travelers from the United Kingdom. The campaign includes a video calling for a strong focus on responsible […]
Read Part 1 of “The Relationship between Food & Community-based Tourism: Central America” here. During this second part of our journey through Central America, we soon […]
Since September 2019, polar explorers Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby have been living in a small trapper’s cabin on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, […]