Dália Liberato, PhD 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 an Associate Professor 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 undergraduate and master levels. Currently, she coordinates the Tourist Activities Management degree in the same school (ESHT-P.PORTO). Her main research interests are Tourism Destination Planning and Management and Regional Development, Tourism Management, Tourism Planning, Border Tourism, Creative Tourism, and etourism. She supervised and co-supervised several MSc dissertations and PhD theses. She 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. She 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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