António Abreu & João Vidal Carvalho 
Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems [PDF ebook] 
Selected Papers from ICOTTS 2023, Volume 1

Competencies and Skills for Tourism Education Advancement: A Bibliometric Analysis and Literature Review.- The importance of Food & Beverage Service in the cruise passengers.- Environmental sustainability of social and executive events in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.- Health and economy: a necessary relationship to face the path towards sustainable development in latin america and the caribbean, post covid.- Covid 19 and the challenge of the health, tourism, and economic sectors, towards the path of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.- The importance of foreign language mastery in the tourism sector.- Tourism Destination Branding as a Marketing Factor: A Short Literature Review with a Focus on Northern Cyprus.- The reality of Blockchain Technology for the Digital Business world.- The Influence of Business Cycles on Corporate Performance: Evidence from Outdoor tourism.- Marketing trade-offs in periods of low and high munificence: A study of tourism enterprises in Uruguay.- Development of a Mobile App as an adjuvant treatment for thermal context patients.- Validation of a Mobile App as an adjuvant treatment for thermal context patients: a randomized controlled trial protocol.- Dark Heritage Tourism in Portugal: a resource to explore.- Adventure tourism in Santo Domingo Province based in an educational proposal.- Sustainable education and the challenges of the contemporary world.- Space tourism: Progress, obstacles and growth prospects bearing in mind public and private projects.- Understanding the Complexities of Leadership and Intersectionality in Women in Tourism Research: A Conceptual Analysis.- The application of information technologies for agrotourism in the municipality of Guapotá, Santander, Colombia.- Dance as representative body language of various Amazonian cultures.- The role of familiness and cultural heritage in touristic family-owned restaurants of Juarez, Mexico.- The Impact of Information Technologies on the tourist experience: Caseof Tabasco, Mexico.- Archaeological Tourism in Pacto – Pichincha based in a tourist educational proposal.- Best Evacuation Simulation Strategies – Analysis of a River Cruise Ship Case.- Local gastronomy and the role of confraternities in tourism valorization. The confraternity of bucho raiano in the promotion of inland tourism.- Music Events, Sustainability and Accessibility: Case Study on the Coldplay Tour in Brazil.- Sustainability and Technological Advancements in Tourism Events: the case of Electric Love Festival (Salzburg, Austria).- Landscape and nature tourism activities evaluation through social networks.- Attachment theory and sense of place for visitors to Kaz-begi National Park.- The construction of the brand narrative through the creation of corporate museums.- Structuring a gastronomic route on the local sweets and other cultural heritage: The case of The Route of Arouca’s Sweet Secrets.- Cultural Indicators as a Tool for Assessing Sustainable Development in the Alto Douro Wine Region.- Itineraries of memory and historical recreation based on mental maps: A Study in Lamego, Portugal.- Community and tourist’s perceptions as contributions to Rural destination development: the Fontoura collab framework pilot.- Building an Irresistible Shopping Experience: The Power of Personality, Subjective Well-Being and Parasocial Relations on the Online Impulse Buying Tendency.- Social media as a marketing strategy in hospitality: case study of the Braga city.- Exploring Tourism Potential in Muş: Embracing Unique Experiences in an Undeveloped Region.- Egocentric networks design in tourism’s indigenous social enterprises.- Motivations of Youth Tourism: The Case of University Students in the Porto and North Region.- Application of Artificial Intelligence in companies in the tourism sector: the case of chatbots.- Rural and community tourism: An alternative in postdevelopment.- Practitioners’ Perception Regarding Bio Certified Food in Public Food Units in Brasov.- The influence of the Covid-19 crisis on financial statements manipulations in the Portuguese wine and tourism sector.- Artificial intelligence in education in Cape Verde: potential and challenges.- The climate in different tourist locations affecting chil- dren with bronchial asthma.- Robotics evolves the industry tourism: advantages and challenges.- Young people with asthma on vacation at Aqua Park – Esmeraldas.- The impact of health and wellness tourism on tourists’ physical, mental, and emotional balance.

António Abreu is an associate professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic University of Porto, and post-doctorate in Information Technologies and Systems, at the University of Coimbra, Department of Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He has done Ph.D. in Software Engineering based on reusable components with human-machine interface applications at the University of Vigo. 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 at the Research Centre CEOS.PP—Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto. He is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management (JISEM).João Vidal de Carvalho is an associate professor at the Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic University of Porto (Portugal),  post-doctorate in Technologies and Information Systems from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He has done Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), M.Sc. in Information Technology Management from the University of Minho (Portugal), and Bachelor in Computer Science. He is the vice director of the CEOS.PP Research Center—Center 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), effective member of the ISCAP/Polytechnic of Porto Skills Recognition/Certification committee, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management (JISEM).

Pedro Liberato has done Ph.D. in Tourism Management and Planning from the University of Vigo (Spain). He is anassociate professor at the Tourism and Leisure Department of the School of Hospitality and Tourism (Polytechnic University of Porto), where he teaches several curricular units in tourism at undergraduate and master levels. Currently, he coordinates the Tourism Management Master’s degree in the same school (ESHT-P. PORTO). He supervised and co-supervised several M.Sc. dissertations and Ph.D. theses. He 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. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 book chapters and articles published in international journals and international conference proceedings, indexed by Scopus and/or Web of Science.
Hazael Cerón Monroy is a research and postgraduate coordinator of the Faculty of Tourism and Gastronomy of the University Anáhuac, México. Hazael Cerón Monroy is a professor of the International Doctorate in Tourism in the subject of Economics of Tourism and Statistical Methods for Research since 2015, member of the National System of Researchers Level I, and specialist in Economics and Tourism with emphasis on data science and statistical and econometric models. Hazael Cerón Monroy is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology, 1 January 2014, and recently awarded Level I status effective from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021. Hazael Cerón Monroy is a professor of the Master’s degree in Tourism Destination Management at the Faculty of Tourism and Gastronomy of the University Anáhuac since 2014, in the subjects of Tourism Economics and Statistics for Tourism.