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João Paulo Cerdeira Bento holds a PhD from the University of Reading, United Kingdom, and is a senior lecturer at the University of Aveiro Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism. He is also a research fellow at the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy. He is an economist and his research interests include the study of international trade and investment, energy and environmental sustainability, and tourism economics.



Fidel Martínez-Roget holds a PhD in economics and is a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) (Spain). Between 2005 and 2011, he was Secretary of the Centre for Tourism Studies and Research (CETUR) at USC. His main areas of research are related to the analysis of rural tourism, the impacts of tourism and economic well-being. He was lead researcher of the projects "Software for the calculation of the economic impact oftourism at regional and local level" and "An indicator of tourism loyalty towards Galicia". He has published in international journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Sustainability, Tourism Economics, Regional Studies, Social Indicators Research or EURE



Elisabeth T. Pereira is an associate professor of economics in the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro, where she coordinates the International Mobility for Economics studies. She holds a PhD in Business and Economics Competitiveness from the University of Aveiro. She is a full researcher at the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy. Between 2012 and 2016, she was chair of the Subject Committee of Economics and Business of Campus Europae - European University Foundation. Her research interests include competitiveness and innovation in tourism, academic tourism,the impact of tourism in economic growth. She is author of several