Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems

Drivers of Productivity in the Portuguese Nature Tourism Industry.- Decentralized Application for the Classification of Hotels Based on IPFS and Blockchain.- Study on the Agricultural Products of the Towns Loja and Catamayo as a Historical Contribution on the Ecuadorian Gastronomy.- Virtual Reality as Tool for Resilient Tourism Companies.- Activating Templar Heritage: Tourism, Narrative Strategies and Information Technologies

João Vidal de Carvalho is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal). He completed postdoctorate in Technologies and Information Systems from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), PhD in Information Systems and Technology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), MSc in Information Technology Management from the University of Minho (Portugal), and Bachelor in Computer Science. He is an effective member 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. He is a member of the Iberian Systems and Information Technology Association (AISTI) and Conference Chair of the ICOTTS 2019-The 2019 International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems. He published some books in computer science/database management. He is a scientific committee member of several conferences in thearea of Information Systems and Technologies.

Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCS in Computer Science. He is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lisbon, President of AISTI (the Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies), Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Editor-in-Chief of both JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and RISTI (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). Moreover, he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program and as Expert at the COST-intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the Government of Italy's Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia's Ministry of Finance, at