Cultural Heritage-Based Sustainable Tourism Approaches (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031932748)

Eliana Martinelli is an architect and assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia. Since 2012, she has carried out academic and professional research in Italy, Germany, Turkey, and Morocco. In 2017, she completed a Ph.D. in Architectural Composition with honors at the IUAV University of Venice, with the first dissertation in Italy on the work of the Turkish architect Turgut Cansever, and later published in the book Recomposing Unity. She has held teaching positions at the Université Euro-Méditerranéenne de Fès (Morocco), SRH Hochschule Heidelberg (Germany), the University of Pisa, the University of Florence, and the Federico II University of Naples. She has been a research fellow in the field of architectural and urban regeneration, specializing in memory and the involvement of communities in the enhancement of tangible and intangible heritage. She has published numerous essays and articles, and she is the co-founder of DAr: international biannual journal of architecture in the Islamic world.

Eduardo Cândido Cordeiro Gonçalves has a Ph.D. in Tourism and Leisure from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) and a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the University of Porto (Portugal, 2003). He is an associate professor of Tourism at the University of Maia, of which he was a vice-rector (between 2014 and 2021). In the Department of Business Sciences of the same university, he coordinated the Degree in Tourism (2008-2023) and coordinated the Master in Tourism, Heritage, and Development (2010-present). He has some appointments as a visiting professor at European universities. He has experience in supervising doctoral theses. He has supervised 36 master's theses and has supervised more than 50 works at the conclusion of a degree course. He received 2 awards. He participated as a researcher in 3 projects, responsible researcher in 5 projects, and advisor in 1 project (publicly funded, i.e., ERDF, European Union).

Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an International Ph.D. on Sustainable Planning in Borderlands. Nowadays, he is a vice-dean for Sustainable Development at the WSB University, Poland, and a visitor professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an European Climate Pact ambassador. Besides, he completed a post-doc researcher on the GREAT Project, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. Moreover, he has graduated in Green Spaces Engineering and Agricultural Engineering and holds a Master's Degree in Planning, Audit, and Control in Urban Green Spaces. He is also the author and/or editor of 20 books, more than 130 indexed peer-review papers, 90 indexed book chapters, and 90 conference papers, and made several presentations worldwide academic events as a keynote speaker. Also, he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa title in Lima-Peru by (UPCI).

Tatjana Pivac is a full professor at the Department of Geography, Tourism, and Hotel Management on Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She teaches the following courses at undergraduate, master, and doctoral studies. Her undergraduate studies include cultural assets in tourism, selective forms in tourism, cultural tourism, wine tourism; master academic studies: basics of event management, management of cultural heritage and cultural tourism, event management in cultural tourism. Her doctoral studies include contemporary forms in tourism, leisure time, and events. She has been a vice-dean for Education on Faculty of Sciences since 2015.