Carla Santos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism
College of Applied Health Sciences
Email: csantos@illinois.edu
Phone:(217) 244-3874
Fax:(217) 244-1935
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Degree
Ph.D., Mass Communications, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
Research and Professional Interests
Dr. Santos is the co-director of the Tourism and Sport Management Laboratory. She
serves on the editorial boards of Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism
Culture and Communication, and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Her research program
is focused on the examination of communicative practices (from mass mediated narratives to the face-to-face dyad)
as a means of addressing the socio-political and cultural impact of tourism on the world's people and cultures.
Research Interests
- Socio-cultural and political aspects of tourism.
- The personalized worlds of experience guided by tourism representations.
- The ideological forces that shape and organize tourism representations.
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