Maria do Rosário Campos Mira is an Adjunct Professor and has a Specialist Professor degree in Tourism from the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, since 2011. She has a PhD in Tourism from the University of Aveiro, and a Master’s Degree in Psychology of Work and Organizations from the University of Coimbra.
She is a researcher on several projects and is interested in and developing research under the topic of quality and internationalization of tourism destinations and human resources management in tourism.
She lectures under graduated and graduated courses of quality, internationalization, destination management and methodology of research in tourism and in gastronomy, among others.
She is an international auditor for UNWTO TEDQUAL Certification Program (which has the aim to improve and certifying the quality of education in tourism all over the world) having performed several international audits in different university education tourism and gastronomy courses. During her academic career she attended several superior education courses in distinct areas of study: in Tourism at the University of Aveiro; in Quality in Public Administration at the Portuguese National Institute of Directors; in Teaching Quality in Tourism held by UNWTO.TedQual Auditors'Course; and in Excellence in Tourism Management Education and Innovation, held by UNWTO.Capacity Programme Manager.