Prof Valeria Minghetti on peer review, overtourism, regenerative tourism, and how to succeed
“Never stop asking yourself questions. Curiosity and the desire to find solutions is what makes a difference,” according to Valeria Minghetti.
Such an attitude will take youth a long way in travel & tourism, she reckons. And it must be redoubled at the very highest levels of academia and industry.
Saverio F Bertolucci interviewed Prof Minghetti for a Tourism’s Horizon Interview. For this “Good Tourism” Insight, Mr Bertolucci identifies his highlights.
Table of Contents
- Who is Professor Valeria Minghetti?
- It’s time to review the peer-review process
- Overtourism: A function of space and time
- The promise of regenerative tourism
- Intuition, curiosity, science, and belief
- What do you think?
- About the author
- About the Tourism’s Horizon Interviews
Who is Professor Valeria Minghetti?
Professor Valeria Minghetti, Chief Research Director at CISET, the International Centre for Studies on Tourism Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy, represents the perfect convergence of academia and hospitality.
An established expert in economics and tourism development whose fields of expertise have grown to the point where there are almost no boundaries, Prof Minghetti’s academic career spans three decades and is a blend of many different knowledge dimensions, including information technology, transport, and micro- and macroeconomics.
Valeria has participated in many national and international conferences as well as contributed to projects led by the European Union and other international institutions.
She is currently a member of the scientific committees of BTO (Be Travel Online) and ENTER (the annual conference by the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism), and she sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism.
