Competitiveness of the Medical Tourism Supply in Portugal.- WRC Vodafone Rally de Portugal fostering tourism development.- The Brazilian tourist on international trips: A behavioral analysis.- Digital influencers and tourism marketing: preliminary approach.- An Empirical Model for Measuring Quality and Maturity of Interoperability of E-Government Solutions.- Case Study: Public Entities Related to Tourism, Hospitality, and Gastronomy in Ecuador

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS 2022), held at University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, from 3 to 5 November 2022. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and technology in tourism, digital marketing applied to tourism and travel, mobile technologies applied to sustainable tourism, information technologies in tourism, digital transformation of tourism business, e-tourism and tourism 2.0, big data and management for travel and tourism, geotagging and tourist mobility, smart destinations, robotics in tourism, and information systems and technologies.

João Vidal de Carvalho is an Associate Professor at Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal). Post-Doctorate in Technologies and Information Systems from University of Coimbra (Portugal). PhD in Information Systems and Technology from University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), MSc in Information Technology Management from University of Minho (Portugal), and Bachelor in Computer Science. Vice director of the CEOS.PP Research Center - Center for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Oporto and member of LIACC Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory - FEUP. Member of the Iberian Systems and Information Technology Association (AISTI). Effective member of the ISCAP/Polytechnic of Porto Skills Recognition/Certification committee. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management (JISEM). Conference General Chair of the ICOTTS - The International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems and ICITED - International Conference in Information Technology & Education. Published some books in computer science/Database Management. 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.

 

António Abreu is Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto. 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. PhD in Software Engineering based on reusable components with Human-Machine Interface applications, by the University of Vigo. Master in Management Informatics by the University of Minho and 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. 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 Coordinator of the Professional Higher Technical Courses (CTeSP) of the Higher Institute and Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP) and 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. Member of the scientific committee of the research centre CEOS.PP. Member of the Direction of the Master in Digital Communication. 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 de Pesquisa Aplicada à Defesa e Segurança; ICOTTS - International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems; ICITED - International Conference in Information Technology & Education. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management (JISEM). President of IADITI - International Association for Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation. General Chair of ICOTTS - International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems and ICITED - International Conference in Information Technology & Education. Author of several articles/book chapters/books indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, some of which with a JCR impac