Fatima Zahra Fakir is Assistant Professor and Researcher under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence program at the Department of Economics and Business Sciences ”Marco Fanno” (DSEA), University of Padova, Italy. She has authored various papers and books on topics such as smart tourism, blockchain, and the metaverse. Her research interests encompass smart tourism, sustainable development, and cultural heritage.
Ahmad Albattat is Associate Professor and Program Leader at the School of Global Hospitality and Tourism, Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is also a Visiting Professor,external examiner and doctoral supervisor at other institutions. He was working for the Jordanian hospitality industry for 17 years, and he is an editor of various book projects on the topic.
Marco Valeri is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Niccolò Cusano University, Italy, and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Pannonia, Hungary. His research areas include strategy implementation, knowledge management, family business, crisis management, information technology, network analysis. He is a member of several editorial boards of international tourism journals, and reviewer and editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, tourism and hospitality management.