Marta Nel-lo

Director of the Chair of Innovation and Research in Tourism Salou-Costa Daurada at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Dr. Marta Nel-lo Andreu is the Director of the Chair of Innovation and Research in Tourism Salou-Costa Daurada at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She has been a Faculty Member and Researcher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) since 1995 and is a member of the Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies Research Group (GRATET). She is also the Director of the International Center for Lifelong Learning in Tourism (ICLEAT). Dr. Nel-lo Andreu is the Founder and Coordinator of the International Network of Researchers in Tourism, Cooperation and Development (COODTUR) since 2008, and of the Ibero-American Network for Research in Higher Education in Tourism (COODESTUR) since 2019. Her main research areas include tourism planning, blue tourism, tourism accessibility, and tourism in protected areas. She has coordinated transfer projects and doctoral theses on blue spaces and wellness tourism.