Pedro Liberato, PhD 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 Institute of Porto), where he teaches several curricular units in Tourism at undergraduate and master levels. Currently, he coordinates the Tourism Management Master degree in the same school (ESHT-P.PORTO). His main research interests are Tourism Marketing, Digital Marketing, Tourism Planning, Creative Tourism, etourism and Smart Destinations. He supervised and co-supervised several MSc dissertations and PhD 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 proceeedings, indexed Scopus and/or Web of Science.

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