Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems: Selected Papers from Icotts 2023, Volume 1

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS 2023), held at Anáhuac University, Bacalar, Mexico, from 2 to 4 November 2023. 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.

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 an associate 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.