Chiara Rabbiosi

Chiara Rabbiosi is an Associate Professor in Economic and Political Geography at the University of Padova. Her research addresses the social and spatial dimensions of mobilities, including tourism mobilities, cultural heritage, and place branding. She was awarded a PhD in Urban and Local European Studies in 2009 and has worked in the field of tourism since 2012. She first worked as a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Recherche et d'Études Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST), University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and later as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism (CAST), Rimini Campus, University of Bologna, Italy. In April 2019, she joined the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) at the University of Padova, where she worked on a high-impact project on Mobilities and Humanities.

At the University of Padova, she teaches in the Master’s programmes in Local Development and Mobility Studies. Her scientific writing alternates between Italian and English. She has published in several international academic journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourist Studies, Cultural Geographies, Gender, Place and Culture, and Journal of Consumer Culture.