Ana Ramires

Ana Ramires is an Assistant Professor at IPAM, Porto, lecturer in Quantitative Methods and the coordinator of the Business Management Degree at the Online Faculty, Universidade Europeia. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering. Her research interests primarily involve the application of quantitative methods in the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on Tourism and Hospitality.

Main Publications: 

Carvalho, I., Ramires, A., Iglesias, M., Fidalgo, A. (2023). Not All Language Tourists Take Language Courses: Determinants of Formal and Informal Language Tourism. The Journal of Vacation Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1177/13567667231185378

Carvalho, I., Ramires, A., Iglesias, M. (2023). Attitudes towards machine translation and languages among travelers. Information Technology & Tourism 25, 175–204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40558-023-00253-0

Carvalho, I., Ramires, A., Bakas, F. (2022). Who are the language tourists? A factor-cluster analysis based on language-related attitudes, beliefs, and travel outcomes. International Journal of Tourism Research, 1– 19. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2559

Carvalho, I., Ramires, A., & Gama, J. (2022). “Seeing a country with your own eyes”: The Impact of Immersion Experiences in Language Travel. European Journal of Tourism Research, 32. https://doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v32i.2622

Ramires, A., Brandão, F., & Sousa, A. C. (2018). Motivation-based cluster analysis of international tourists visiting a World Heritage City: The case of Porto, Portugal. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 8, 49-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2016.12.001

Main Projects:

Member of the research team:

To be or not to be inclusive? The sustainable and accessible tourism marketing. (2023-2024) Universidade Europeia. Internal R&D Funding by Universidade Europeia.

The use of automatic translation tools in the tourism sector. (2023-2024) Universidade Europeia. Internal R&D Funding by Universidade Europeia.

PRESS – Promoting european SMEs sustainability throughout funding: an analysis on the determinants of liquidity and cost of debt. (2023-2024) Universidade Europeia. Internal R&D Funding by Universidade Europeia.