Pablo de Carlos Villamarín was born in Vigo. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economic and Business Sciences and has a PhD in Economy by the Universidade de Vigo. He received the qualification “Excellent” and “Cum laude” for his dissertation titled Relation between the economic cycle and the political cycle. Theoretical analysis and application to the Spanish economy in 2005.
He began his teaching and research activities at the Universidade de Vigo in 1996 and since 2010 he is a member of the Area of Business Organization of the Department of Business Organization and Marketing, of which he is a senior lecturer since 2022.
Between 2013 and 2016 he was the coordinator of the degree in Tourism of the Faculty of Business and Tourism of the Universidade de Vigo. He has also collaborated between 2014 and 2017 in the coordination of the master’s degree in Creation, Management and Innovation in Business taught at the same institution.
In recent years he has focused his teaching activity on courses in the area of Business Organization, such as Information Systems for Tourism Management (Degree in Tourism and PCEO Tourism-History) or Strategic Management (Degree in Business Administration, PCEO PCEO Business Administration-Law and PCEO Business Administration-Computer science). Aside from teaching and/or coordinating courses in different degrees, he also teaches in the master’s degree in Tourism Management and Planning and in the master’s degree in Sports Business Management, both of which are official degrees at the Universidade de Vigo.
At the international level, he has taught several courses at the Master Responsable du Développement à l’International na UFR Lettres, Sciences Humaines et Sociales da Université de Bretagne-Sud (Francia) and the Mestrado em Gestão do Turismo na Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal).
Lastly, he is a part of the inter-university doctoral program in Tourism, within the line of research Economic Analysis of the tourism sector.
Within his research activity, it is worth noting his participation in several projects and contracts with public and private entities related to the analysis of the business sector in Vigo and its hinterland, as well as to the analysis of the socioeconomic reality of the province of Ourense as a member of the Emitur research group.
Nevertheless, his main lines of research include the business-economic analysis of tourism as a key sector in the world economy and that of professional sports as an activity that has gained great economic and social importance in recent years.
- Fraiz Brea, J. A., De Carlos Villamarín, P., & Araújo Vila, N. (2020). «Disclosing homogeneity within heterogeneity: a segmentation of Spanish active tourism based on motivational pull factors», Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 30: 100294. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2020.100294.
- Fraiz Brea, J. A., De Carlos Villamarín, P., & Araújo Vila, N. (2020). «Disclosing homogeneity within heterogeneity: a segmentation of Spanish active tourism based on motivational pull factors», Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 30: 100294. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2020.100294.
- Araújo Vila, N., Fraiz Brea, J. A., & De Carlos Villamarín, P. (2021). «Film tourism in Spain: destination awareness and visit motivation as determinants to visit places seen in TV series», European Research on Management and Business Economics, 27: 100135. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2020.100135.
- Nicolau, J. L., De Carlos Villamarín, P., Alén González, E., & Pérez González, A. (2022). “Asymmetric effects of extreme-moderate online reviews in the language-satisfaction relationship”, Tourism Management, 91, August: 104524. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104524.
- Pérez González, A., De Carlos Villamarín, P., & y Alén González, E. (2022). “An analysis of the efficiency of football clubs in the Spanish First Division through a two-stage relational network DEA model: a simulation study”, Operational Research. An International Journal, 22(3): 3089-3112. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-021-00650-5.