The ARTUR project aims first to assess the impact of tourism on air quality and secondly to investigate how air quality could be a criterion to increase the competitiveness of a tourism destination.

A communication entitled “Tourism and air quality in Portugal: cointegration and causality tests” was presented by Maria João Carneiro and Celeste Eusébio at the International Conference on Tourism (ICOT) 2019, held from 26 to 29 June in Braga, Portugal.

The 1st project meeting occurred on 13th of September, at the Department of Environment and Planning of the UA, with the participation of all the team members, and where it was discussed the planning of the tasks and the contracting of new researchers.

The ARTUR Principal Investigator Alexandra Monteiro wrote an opinion piece for WATTSON about the research project.