Gemma Nel-lo

Director of the Chair of Innovation and Tourism Research Salou-Costa Daurada at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV).

Dr. Marta Nel-lo Andreu is the Director of the Chair of Innovation and Tourism Research Salou-Costa Daurada at URV. She has been part of the Teaching and Research Staff at Rovira i Virgili University (URV) since 1995, a member of the Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies (GRATET), and serves as the Director of the International Center for Lifelong Learning in Tourism (ICLEAT). She is also the founder and coordinator of the International Network of Researchers in Tourism, Cooperation, and Development (COODTUR) since 2008, and the Ibero-American Research Network in Higher Education in Tourism (COODESTUR) since 2019. Her primary research focuses on tourism, development, and protected areas, and she has led projects and doctoral theses related to blue spaces and wellness tourism.