Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems : Selected Papers from ICOTTS 2025, Volume 2

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology, and Systems (ICOTTS 2025), held at Technical University of the Atlantic, Sal, Cape Verde, from November 6 to 8, 2025. 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 Associate Professor at Porto Accounting and Business School/ Polytechnic University of Porto (Portugal). He is Post-Doctorate in technologies and information systems at the University of Coimbra. He holds Ph.D. in information systems and technology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, master’s in information technology management from the University of Minho, and degree in informatics/applied mathematics from the Portucalense University. He was (between 2020 and 2022) Vice-Director of the Research Center for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto (CEOS.PP).

António Abreu is Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto. He is Post-Doctorate in information technologies and systems, of Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He obtains Ph.D. in software engineering based on reusable components with human–machine interface applications, by the University of Vigo, master’s in management informatics by the University of Minho, and degree in informatics applied mathematics by the Lusíada University. António Abreu is 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. 

Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an international Ph.D. on sustainable planning in Borderlands. Nowadays, he is Vice-Dean for sustainable development at the WSB University, Poland, and Visitor Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is European Climate Pact Ambassador. Besides, he completed Post-doc Researcher on the GREAT Project, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. Furthermore, he collaborates with the ECIDES Research Group—University International of La Rioja (UNIR), Spain; he is Vice-Coordinator of 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 (Researcher); and AQUAGEO Research Group—University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.

Dália Liberato holds Ph.D. in tourism management and planning and master’s in management and planning of Inland and Health Tourism, from the University of Vigo (Spain). She is Senior Lecturer at the Tourism and Leisure Department of the School of Hospitality and Tourism (Polytechnic Institute of Porto), where she teaches several curricular units in tourism at the undergraduate and master levels. Currently, she coordinates the tourist activities management degree and master in sustainable hospitality and tourism management in the same school (ESHT-P. PORTO). She is Head of research in tourism at the UNIAG Research Center. Her main research interests are tourism destination planning and management and regional development, tourism management, tourism planning, border tourism, creative tourism, wine and gastronomy tourism, and e-tourism.