Legacy and Innovation

Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an International Ph.D. on Sustainable Planning in Borderlands. Nowadays, he is a Professor at the WSB University, Poland, and a visitor Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an European Climate Pact Ambassador. Besides, he completed a 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; 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 (Vice-coordinator); and AQUAGEO Research Group - University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Moreover, he has Graduated in Green Spaces Engineering and Agricultural Engineering and holds a Master's Degree in Planning, Audit, and Control in Urban Green Spaces. He is also the author and/or editor of 20 books, more than a 120 indexed peer review papers, 80 indexed book chapters, 90 conference papers, and made several presentations worldwide academic events as keynote speaker. Tatjana Pivac Born in 1976 in Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad in 2000, received her MSc degree in 2004, and defended her PhD thesis in 2008. She was appointed Associate Professor in 2014, in the field of Tourism. She teaches at all levels of study at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management. At the bachelor level she teaches the following courses: Cultural Heritage in Tourism, Selective Forms of Tourism, Excursion Tourism, Cultural Tourism, and Wine Tourism. At the master level she teaches the following courses: Introduction to Event Management and Cultural Events Management, and at the doctoral level she teaches Contemporary Forms of Tourism and Organization of Leisure and Events. She is a member of numerous commissions and working groups at the Faculty of Sciences: Organizing Committee of the International Meeting Contemporary Trends in Tourism, Hotel Management and Gastronomy, Self-evaluation and Quality Board, Master and Doctoral Studies Enrolment Commission at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, etc. She is the editor of an international scientific journal Tourism. She has participated in numerous national and international projects, reviewed a large number of papers in national and international journals. She has authored and co-authored over 100 scientific papers. Dr Ante Mandic is an assistant professor of sustainable tourism at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split, Croatia. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department at Colorado State University. He serves as a manager of SmartCulTour Living Lab and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ecotourism, and the Executive Committee member and coordinator of Knowledge development at the International Union for Conservation of Nature - World Commission for Protected Areas TAPAS. His teaching and research predominately focus on sustainable tourism development in nature-based destinations. He has published a number of academic papers and book chapters. His books on sustainable tourism in nature-based destinations were published with Springer Nature, Routledge and Edward Elgar. Dr Mandic has extensive experience working as a researcher or educator on international projects founded by INTERREG MEDITERRANEAN and HORIZON 2020 program.