Sofia Lopes holds a PhD in Tourism Management from ISCTE-IUL and Universidade Europeia and a Master and Bachelor degree in Dentistry from Instituto Superior de Ciรชncias da Saรบde Egas Moniz, Portugal.
She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology and a member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Council of Universidade Europeia. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences at Universidade Lusรญada de Lisboa, Portugal.
Her research interests pretend to focus on the impact of hospitality on tourism, especially its importance in health and wellness tourism and the convergence between hospitality in the hotel sector and hospitality in the health sector.
Her current research focuses on the importance of robots in the hospitality industry, cultural and heritage tourism, the relationship between tourism and peace, and the importance of academic mobility and its relationship to tourism.

Main Publications:

Carvalho, I., Madeira, A., Monteiro, A., Lopes, S., & Palraฬƒo, T. (2023). Fado, urban popular song, and intangible heritage: perceptions of authenticity and emotions in TripAdvisor reviews. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 10(442), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01939-w

Palraฬƒo, T., Rodrigues, R. I., Madeira, A., Mendes, A. S., & Lopes, S. (2023). Robots in Tourism and Hospitality: The Perception of Future Professionals. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2023, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/7172152

Ramires, A., Monteiro, A., Lopes, S., Rodrigues de Sousa, S., & Leite, Aฬ‚. (2022). Towards an interpretation of the portuguese cultural tourist: Motivations and constraints. Turyzm/Tourism, 32(2) 187โ€“214. https://doi.org/10.18778/0867-5856.32.2.10

Carvalho, I., Lopes, S., Madeira, A., Palraฬƒo. T, & Mendes, A. S. (2022). Robot Coworkers: The Vision of Future Hoteliers. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2022, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8567289

Monteiro, A., Lopes, S., & Carbone, F. (2021). Academic Mobility: Bridging Tourism and Peace Education. In J. T. da Silva, Z. Breda, & F. Carbone (Eds.), Role and Impact of Tourism in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (pp. 275-301). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-5053-3.ch016