Scientific Committee

Adalberto Dias de Carvalho

Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Technical Council of ISCET and director of CIIIC, retired Professor and main researcher of the University of Porto. PhD student in tourism at the University of Girona. Visiting professor at several foreign universities and author of multiple scientific articles.

Christian Bataillou

Allan Williams

Professor of Tourism and Mobility Studies

Surrey Tourism Research Centre / School of Hospitality and Tourism

Faculty of Business Economics and Law /University of Surrey

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Professor and researcher at the University of Perpignan, holds a doctorate in Sociology and a master degree in Law. He is an expert of the WTO in sustainable tourism, culture and heritage, with an extensive experience as coordinator of master and doctorate degrees and as director of research teams.

Jaume Guia

María de la Cruz del Río Rama

Eugénio dos Santos

Jorge Ricardo Pinto

José Alberto Rio Fernandes

Luís Ferreira

José Alvarez Garcia

Michael Hall

Vítor Vasconcelos

José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes

Stephen Page

Luís Paulo Saldanha Martins

Alexandre Augusto Biz

PhD in Management and Business by the University of Vigo (Galicia-Spain). Professor and researcher at the University of Vigo. She was also invited professor in several master programs in the area of quality management. Publications and collaborations in research projects linked with business and tourism are numerous in his career.

Emeritus Professor of University of Porto. PhD in Modern and Contemporary History in University of Porto. Author of several books, parts of books and scientific articles in different countries. Visiting Professor in several universities all over the world, mainly in Brazil, Spain, Netherlands. Previously President of Associação Europeia de Historiadores Latino-Americanistas (AHILA). Lecturer at ISCET.

EMTM programme director
Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona

PhD in Urban Historical Geography by University of Porto. Coordinator of the MSc course in Tourism at ISCET and editor of "Percursos & Ideias", portuguese scientif journal. Also teaches at ESAP and he is a reseacher at CIIIC and CEGOT .

Author of several books, parts of books and scientific articles.

Geographer, full professor and reseacher at the University of Porto and CEGOT. Coordinator of the PhD course in Geography at the UP and editor of GOT, journal of Geography and Spatial Planning

Professional experience in urbanism, strategic and spatial planning, including consultancy to the administration at national, regional and local levels. Author of more than one hundred books, parts of books and scientific articles.

PhD in Direction and Planning of Tourism by the University of Vigo. Professor and researcher at the University of Extremadura (Spain). Bachelor of Veterinary Science from the University of León (Castilla y León-Spain); Official University Master's in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (University of Vigo); Master´s MBA Executive of Business Administration Management (Business School Caixa Nova) and Diploma in Health by the National School of Health (Spain).

Lecturer and researcher (CIIIC, ISCET) mainly on the subjects of International Relations and European Studies, José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes is author of several books and handbooks for college students, as well as the scientific papers published in national and international journals.

PhD in management, with a thesis in tourism strategic planning. Teacher of ISCET for tourism degrees is also specialist in tourism and leisure. Researcher in tourism and strategic planning tourism destinations, he has the coordination of national and international projects. Luís has published several articles, book chapters and books. He also works as a manager and a consultant for national and international public and private organizations.

Full Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (UP); PhD and aggregation in Human Geography (UP); has researched issues related to Leisure and Tourism for about three decades. Relevant works: in youth, sea bathers in the nineteenth century: a look at an epoch; in development stage, leisure and tourism spaces in the Northwest of Portugal; and at consolidation stage, tourism, research and training: trends and challenges in changing times.

Professor in Marketing. teaching, publication and research interests in tourism, regional development and social/green marketing with particular emphasis on issues of place branding and marketing as well as conservation and environmental change, event management and marketing, and the use of tourism as an economic development and conservation mechanism. He is the author and editor of over 40 books as well as over 250 journal articles and book chapters.

Professor of Tourism
Faculty of Management / Bournemouth University
Poole, Dorset, UK

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Biologist, Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University and a researcher of the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research – CIIMAR, being since 2013 the president of the board.

Professor of the Master in Tourism in the Department of Tourism of the Federal University of Parana - UFPR. Researches tourism, information and communication technology, and knowledge management. Coordinator of TURITEC. Postdoctoral in the area of knowledge management, PhD in Engineering and Knowledge Management. Reviewer journals in the field of Management, Tourism and Production Engineering .

José Manoel Gandara

Laurentina Maria da Cruz Vareiro

Graduated with a degree in Tourism from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), with a master’s degree in tourism from the Scuola Superiore Del Commercio Del Turismo i Dei Servizzi (CTSP) in Milan and a doctorate in tourism and sustainable development from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Has post-doctoral work on various themes such as sustainability, marketing, quality, planning, management and control of tourism destinations and hotels.

PhD in Economics (2008) at the University of Minho. She is Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Management, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal, where she teaches since 1997. Her research interests include regional, rural and urban economics, tourism economics, rural and cultural tourism.

Marcello Tomé

Maria Isabel Andrés Marques

Professor of Tourism Department and Director of the School of Tourism and Hospitality of Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Brazil. Post-doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Malaga (Spain), Doctor in Urban Planning-regional by UFF. Master in Geography from the University of São Paulo-USP (Brazil). Specialist in Environmental Planning and Bachelor in Geography from UFF.

PHD in Tourism, University of Perpignan, France. Assistant Professor at Lusófona University of Porto. Director of the degree in Tourism and Management, as well as Master in Tourism Management at the Lusófona University of Porto. Research associate of CEPESE – Population, Economy and Society Studies Center, University of Porto. Research Group Coordinator on Heritage, Culture and Tourism of Northern Portugal.

Lorena Rodríguez Campo

PhD in Economics and Business (University of A Coruña). Postgraduate Diploma in Management and Marketing of tourism businesses (University Illes Balears and UOC). M.B.A. specialization in Marketing and Commercial Management (University of A Coruña). M.B.A. specialization in General Management (University of A Coruña). Teaches in the area of Marketing and Market Research at the University of Vigo

Carlos Fernandes

Joaquim Antunes

Mário Beni

Ph.D. is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Portugal. He is course leader of the B.A. in Tourism (UNWTO Tedqual certified) and lecturer in the M.A. in Innovative Tourism Development. Cooperates in World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and Council of Europe for training on alternative tourism. Is a researcher at CETRAD. A member of the editorial board of various tourism related scientific journals.

Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. PhD in Management, specialization in Marketing, from ISCTE/IUL – Lisbon University Institute. Current area of research includes Marketing and Tourism. He was Director of Tourism course in School of Technology and Management and actuality he is Director of Management Department. Member of Research Centre in Education, Technologies and Health (CI&DETS) of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu.

PhD in Communication Sciences and Professor of Tourism at the School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo (ECA / USP) ; Master in Sociology and Politics from the School of Sociology and Politics, University of São Paulo (USP); Retired professor of ECA / USP; professor of the course Graduate of UNB - University of Brasilia ; Visiting Professor of several post graduate studies programs in Tourism and Hospitality.

Vander Valduga

José Luis Coca Pérez

PhD in Geography by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Professor and researcher at the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil). Researcher of the network of UNESCO Chair Culture and Traditions of Wine. He has published research articles in indexed international journals and different book chapters.

PhD in Economics and Business by the Complutense University of Madrid. Full professor and researcher in the University of Extremadura. Postgraduate in Financial Management by the Economics & Business Administration by the Complutense University of Madrid. Responsible for the group of Research "Enterprise Risk, Finance and Investment, Quality, Tourism and Business"(REFINCATUREM) of the University of Extremadura.

Camilo Prado Román

Assistant Professor in the Business Economics Department at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid). Degree in Business Administration and Management (CUNEF). Master Specialist Investment in Tangible Assets (RJCU) and Expert Techniques Statistics (UPM) Member of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM) and now serves as Secretary General of the Academy. He is also Director for the Master in Advanced Management (RJCU).

Alicia Blanco González

Degree in Political Science and Administration (U. Santiago de Compostela). Master in Marketing and Specialist Investment in Tangible Assets (Rey Juan Carlos U.) and Expert Techniques Statistics (UPM). Assistant Professor in the Business Economics Department (RJCU). Member of the European Academy of Management and Business Economics and the Spanish Association of Academic and Professional Marketing. She is Secretary General of the Camilo Prado Foundation

Evaristo Galeana Figueroa

PhD in Direction and organization of companies by the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain). National Researcher by the National Council of Science and Technology. Director of Academic consolidated Team in Competitiveness. Professor and researcher at the Accounting and management Department of the Faculty of accounting and administrative sciences at the University Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico)

Dora Aguilasocho Montoya

Carlos Costa

Francisco Jesús Ferreiro Seoane

José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro

Biagio Simonetti

Paola Villani

Carlos Alberto Videira da Silva

Luís Mota Figueira

PhD in Direction and organization of companies by the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain). National Researcher by the National Council of Science and Technology. Member of Academic consolidated Team in Competitiveness Currently. Professor and researcher at the University Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico), Bachelor of accounting from the University Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico).

Full Professor and Director of the Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Aveiro. PhD and MSc in Tourism from the University of Surrey (UK) and a degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Aveiro. Director of Doctoral Programme in Tourism, editor of "Turismo & Desenvolvimento", and Coordinator of the Research Centre for Tourism.

Doctor of Economy. Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Professor of entrepreneurship at the University of A Coruña. General Director of Quorum Económico, consultancy firm dedicated to economic and enterprising studies. He was the General Director of Economic Promotion in A Coruña’ Council, Chief of the Igape area of the Economy’s Office in Galicia’s Council. Executive of multinational Companies as Losan Group, Tafisa-Sonae, Fenosa Union, Pastor Bank.

PhD in Contemporary History by the University of Minho (UM). Assistant Professor in the Department of History of the Institute of Social Sciences (UM). Director of the River Ave Textile Industry Museum, National Representative of TICCIH, consultant body of UNESCO / ICOMOS for the industrial heritage, and president of APPI - Portuguese Society for Industrial Heritage.Director of the academic review Industrial Archaeology

PhD in Computational Statistics. Professor and Researcher in Statistics at the Università degli Studi del Sannio (Italy). His research interests focus on Multivariate Statistical Methods. He is author of more than 40 conference and high impact factor journal papers as Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics and Communication in Statistics – Theory andMethods; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. He coordinates several international projects.

Associate Professor in Italian Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples. Full Professor in Contemporary Italian Literature. President in the Learning Agreement Committee, First Level Degree Course in Tourism for Art and Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Humanities, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples and Vice President of SISTUR (Scientific National Society for Tourism).

Professor at ISCET.

Phd in Tourism and Leisure.

Specialist in Physical Geography. Researcher at CEGOT.

Post-Doc in Tourism in University of Aveiro.

PhD in Art History, University of Coimbra.

Professor at Escola Superior de Gestão de Tomar - Instituto Politécnico de Tomar.

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Manuela Guerra

Jose Antonio Fraiz Brea

Professor at the Estoril Higher School of Tourism (ESHTE). She has been responsible for teaching Food Technology and Innovation and Development of New Food Products to the degree of Food Production in the Catering industry and to the MSc programs: Catering Food Safety and Quality; and Innovation in Culinary Arts, being the co‐coordinator of the latter. She coordinated ESHTE's Unit on Innovation and culinary arts integrated in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Nucleus at ESHTE

Coordinator of the MSc Degree in Management and Planning of Interior and Health Tourism.

Professor, Department of Marketing and Market Research

Faculty of Business and Tourism. Universidade de Vigo.

Cristiana Oliveira

PhD in Tourism Sciences, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France. Assistant professor and pedagogical coordination of the School of Tourism, Sports & Hospitality at Universidade Europeia. Researcher at UNIDE – BRU ISCTE. Since 2010. Author of journal articles and member of several scientific and organizing committees of international conferences, as well as a reviewer for international journals and books in the tourism field. Her research interests are tourism, consumer behavior, tourism impacts, ICT, and place attachment.