Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems

António Abreu is an associate professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto. He has done a post-doctorate in Information Technologies and Systems, by the University of Coimbra, Department of Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, and Ph.D. in Software Engineering based on reusable components with human–machine interface applications, by the University of Vigo. He is a master in Management Informatics by the University of Minho and has a degree in Informatics-Applied Mathematics by the Lusíada University. He is currently a lecturer, in the scientific area of information systems, at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto/Politécnico do Porto, ISCAP/PPorto. He is an integrated researcher of the Research Centre CEOS.PP - Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto. Between 2015 and 2018, he was a coordinator of the Professional Higher Technical Courses (CTeSP) of the Higher Institute and Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP) and a coordinator for Market Development of the Training Centre and Services Abroad of ISCAP. Currently, he is responsible for the information systems discipline group of CTeSP. He is a member of the scientific committee of the research centre CEOS.PP, a member of the Direction of the Master in Digital Communication and a member of the scientific committee of several national and international conferences and initiatives in the area of Technologies and Information Systems (CISTI - Conferencia Ibérica de Sistemas y Tecnologías de Información; WORLDCIST - World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies; CAPSI - Conference of the Portuguese Association of Information Systems; COMETEL - Congresso Internacional de Computación y Telecomunicaciones; RISTI - Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação; MICRADS - Conferência Internacional Multidisciplinar dePesquisa Aplicada à Defesa e Segurança; ICOTTS - International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems; ICITED - International Conference in Information Technology & Education. He is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management (JISEM). He is a president of IADITI - International Association for Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation. He is a general chair of ICOTTS—International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems and ICITED—International Conference in Information Technology & Education. He is author of several articles/book chapters/books indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, some of which with a JCR impact factor, with publication in the area of information systems. João Vidal de Carvalho is an associate professor at Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal). He has done post-doctorate in Technologies and Information Systems from University of Coimbra (Portugal), Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technology from University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), M.Sc. in Information Technology Management from University of Minho (Portugal) and a bachelor in Computer Science. He is a vice-director of the CEOS.PP Research Centre—Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Oporto and a member of LIACC Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory – FEUP. He is a member of the Iberian Systems and Information Technology Association (AISTI). He is an effective member of the ISCAP/Polytechnic of Porto Skills Recognition/Certification committee. He is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management (JISEM). He is a conference general chair of the ICOTTS—The International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems and ICITED—International Conference in Information Technology and Education. He published some books in computer science/database management. He is a scientific committee member of several conferences in the area of information systems and technologies. He is currently involved in an international quality assurance research project for Higher Education Institutions' Information Systems. Dália Liberato done Ph.D. in Tourism Management and Planning and Master’s in Management and Planning of Inland and Health Tourism, from the University of Vigo (Spain). She is an associate professor at the Tourism and Leisure Department of the School of Hospitality and Tourism (Polytechnic Institute of Porto), where she teaches several curricular units in tourism at undergraduate and master levels. Currently, she coordinates the Tourist Activities Management degree in the same school (ESHT-P.PORTO). Her main research interests are tourism destination planning and management and regional development, tourism management, tourism planning, border tourism, creative tourism and e-tourism. She supervised and co-supervised several M.Sc. dissertations and Ph.D. theses. She is also involved in applied research and consultancy projects in tourism and leisure and is a member of organizing and scientific committees of international conferences. She is the author or co-author of more than 50 book chapters and articles published in international journals and international conference proceedings, indexed Scopus and/or Web of Science. Iván Claudio Suazo Galdames is Ph.D. in Morphology from the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), a master in Neurosciences and Behavioural Biology from the Pablo de Olavide University (Spain) and a dental surgeon from the University of Chile (Chile). He has been professor of Morphology at Chilean and foreign Universities and  is a member of the SINPOS research group (Peripheral Nervous System and Sense Organs) at the University of Oviedo. He has more than a hundred publications in international scientific journals, an author of four books and has been a professor of Master and Ph.D. programmes in his specialty. He is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Medical and Surgical Sciences and the European Journal of Health Research. He is currently vice-rector of Research and Doctorates at the Autonomous University of Chile.

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