Xerardo Pereiro

Xerardo Pereiro (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD, CETRAD – Vila Real – Portugal. Email <xperez@utad.pt> ) holds a European PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia – Spain) and another PhD in Tourism from the University of La Laguna (Canarias - Spain). He is assistant teacher with habilitation of anthropology and cultural tourism in UTAD (Portugal). He conducts research about anthropology of tourism and cultural heritage in CETRAD (Centre for Transdiciplinary Development Studies) of UTAD. He has done fieldwork research in Asturias and Galicia (Spain), Portugal and Panama –about indigenous guna tourism-. He was the Head of Applied Anthropology Degree Course of UTAD, and visitor teacher in the universities of Vigo, Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pablo Olavide (Seville), Salamanca, Panamá, “Universidade Nova de Lisboa” and others. He was awarded with 1994 Vicente Risco Award of Social Anthropology and Social Sciences, 2007 FITUR in research tourism and 2011 Sol-Meliá - University of Balears Islands Awards for Tourism Research. Nowadays is doing research on Portuguese Way of Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Web: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1093500028276373