Rita Rosa Carballo Fuentes

Rita Rosa Carballo Fuentes is a Contract Professor (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She is actively affiliated with the Research Group TIDES (Economy, Environment, Sustainability and Tourism) and the Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development, focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of tourism economics and sustainable development.

Her primary research domains include:

• Tourism Management and Economic Impact Analysis
• Sustainable Tourism Development Frameworks
• Cultural Tourism Resource Utilization
• Destination Image Formation Processes
• Tourism Security Risk Assessment
• Financial Modeling in Tourism Enterprises

Dr. Carballo Fuentes completed her doctoral research in 2014 with the thesis "Tourist experience, image, security and cultural centers," supervised by Carmelo Javier León González and Sergio Moreno Gil. Her work establishes critical linkages between cultural infrastructure, perceptual security factors, and destination competitiveness in Mediterranean tourism contexts.

Professional recognition includes active membership in specialized research networks with verified scholarly identifiers across major academic platforms.

Contact is available through university channels with ongoing contributions to sustainable tourism policy development and economic modeling in island destinations.