As part of my PhD studies in Economic and Political Geography, I have specialised in the territorial governance of transnational cultural routes, with a particular focus on pilgrimage routes (physical routes), specifically those involved in the Horizon 2020 project rurAllure. Some of the main aspects analysed included the multi-level and cross-border coordination among actors and policies, the rural regeneration potential of pilgrimage routes, the territorial identity related to the routes and the feelings of "Europeanness" that belonging to a transnational cultural network can foster.
Previously, I have worked with sustainable tourism indicators and their role in tourism policymaking, paying particular attention to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) and the experience of several European destinations involved in its testing.
Currently, I am interested in merging both lines of research, using sustainability indicators to measure the impacts that cultural routes generate in the territories traversed. This is very applied research since I am involved in the development of a cultural routes programme for the Ibero-American region, which is following the example of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme.
