Sílvia Quinteiro is Coordinating Professor at University of the Algarve – School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism. She holds a first degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and German Studies) from New University of Lisbon, a Master's and a PhD degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Lisbon. She is a full member of the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC), based at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universty of Lisbon, where she coordinates the Research Cluster in Literature and Tourism Studies: Lit&Tour. She collaborates with Rede Entremeio (Tourism, Space and Urbanities Research Group of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and with project LITESCAPE. PT Literary Atlas of Continental Portugal. Her research interests include Comparative Literature, and the relation between Literature and Tourism. She has authored several national and international scientific publications: Lit&Tour: Ensaios sobre literatura e turismo (2014), Literatura e turismo: Viagens, relatos e itinerários (2016), Literatura e turismo: Turistas, viajantes e lugares literários (2016), Key Concepts in Literature and Tourism Studies (2018) and Estudos em Literatura e Turismo: Conceitos Fundamentais (2019), Os lugares da literatura. Mapas e rotas literárias (2019), Coimbra as a literary tourism destination: landscapes of literature (2020), Link up with Technology Application in Literary Tourism (2021), Caracterização e análise do potencial de desenvolvimento do turismo cultural literário em Coimbra (2020), among others. She cocoordinates the Literary Route of the Algarve.