Presentation developed by Dr. Xerardo Pereiro within the framework of the Ibero-American Network for the Responsible Tourist Use of Natural Resources (RITA).

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Xerardo Pereiro Pérez He is a Full Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Tourism at the Chaves campus of the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD). He is a tenured researcher at CETRAD ("Center for Transdisciplinary Studies for Development") and a member of the Department of Economics, Sociology, and Management at UTAD. He was the director of the Bachelor's Degree in Applied Anthropology at UTAD, and received the Vicente Risco Prize for Social Sciences in 1994, the FITUR Prize for Tourism Research in 2007, the National Geographic Society Prize in 2007 (jointly with Cebaldo de León), and the Sol-Meliá Prize for Tourism Studies in 2011, among other distinctions.