Sustainable Tourism, Culture and Heritage Promotion: Development, Management and Connectivity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031495359)

Jorge Chica-Olmo

Jorge Chica-Olmo is Full Professor at the University of Granada, Spain, in the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business. Its research is about spatiotemporal analysis of socioeconomic phenomena. He interested in the development and application of geostatistics, spatial econometrics, and geographic information systems in different areas as real estate, tourism, transport, violence, energy, wellbeing, public administration, etc. He published numerous articles in journals such as Urban Studies, Journal of Real Estate of Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, The Geographical Journal, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Cities, Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Energy Economics, Social Indicators Research, etc.

Prof. Dr. Miroslav Vujičic is Associate Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences. He is Main Evaluator for impact assessment of European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022 and Chief Researcher for sustainability and impact assessment for Expo 2020 Dubai. Main field of interest is decision making processes, sustainability and impact assessment, project management, green events, accessible and meaningful communication, sustainable cultural tourism and has proficiency skills in data gathering, analysis and interpretation of mathematical and statistical methods. He has published 53 research papers at Scopus indexed journals and has more than 753 citations in Scopus database. He is Experienced Project Manager as he participated on more than 30 international projects. He also participated as External Evaluator for European projects.

Rui Alexandre Castanho

Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an International Ph.D. in Sustainable Planning in Borderlands and is the Vice-Coordinator of the Research Center on Innovation in Tourism, CITUR-Madeira (Portugal). Nowadays, he is a Professor at WSB University (Poland), a Professor at UNIR (Spain), and a visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Besides, he conducted post-doc research on the GREAT Project at the University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. Furthermore, he collaborates with the VALORIZA - Research Center for the Enhancement of Endogenous Resources, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal; CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Madeira, Portugal; ECIDES - UNIR, Spain and AQUAGEO Research Group - University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Moreover, he graduated in Green Spaces Engineering and Agricultural Engineering and holds a Master's Degree in Planning, Audit, and Control in Urban Green Spaces. Furthermore, he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa for improving Borderlands communities' living standards and the connections enabled between Latin American and Central European Institutions by the UPCI - Lima, Peru.

Ugljesa Stankov

Dr. Ugljesa Stankov isFull Professor at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. His main research areas are the strategic role of information technology in designing services and co-creating experiences.

Eliana Martinelli

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 PhD 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, later published in the book Recomposing Unity. Turgut Cansever in Istanbul (2022). 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 theFederico 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.