摘要：On a cold and misty winter morning we were warmly greeted by Carminda Cavaco on her Lisbonapartment. Serenely on her couch, lighting a cigarette at regular intervals, Carminda happily answeredour endless questions and calmly (re)counted various episodes of her life. We chatted for about threehours, scribbling some notes hastily, and travelled to her youth, to her voyages and initial papers, tothe development of her early career, attempting to understand the paths that brought her to becomethe pioneer and the most influential Portuguese academic in the feld of tourism. Some weeks earlier,from the other end of the Mediterranean, Metin Kozak approached us to write her portrait, an ideato which we were immediately attracted.
