EVA
MARTIN FUENTES

Eva Martin-Fuentes holds an international PhD in Engineering and Information Technologies with the qualification of Excellent Cum Laude, which was awarded the 2019 Thesis Excellence Award for a Doctoral Thesis by the International Federation for Information Technologies and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) and with the extraordinary award of University of Lleida; a MSc in Tourism Planning and Management; a BA in Advertising and Public Relations; and a BA in Tourism. She is associate professor for the Department of Economics and Business at the University of Lleida, UdL (Spain) where she has been recognized twice with the Teaching Excellence Award for the areas of tourism management and social media. She has also been awarded by the Catalan Government with the Vicens Vives Distinction for the Universitary Quality Teaching. She is currently accredited as Full Professor by the Catalan Quality Agency (AQU). She is Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Social and Territorial Development at the University of Lleida. She has been Coordinator of Social Media Marketing (MSc), Academic Secretary of the Business Management Department, and Vice-dean of Institutional Relations and Employability of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Tourism, director of a University-Enterprise Chair. She is post-doctoral researcher in the Research Group on Tourism and Social Knowledge Economy of the UdL and she has been Visiting Academic for the James Cook University (Singapore), University of South Australia and for the Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril (Portugal). Her research interests focus on e-tourism, especially in the hospitality industry. She has more than seventeen years of professional experience in events management, communications, and marketing as a cultural manager, and one year of experience as a tourist destination manager for the Tourism Board of Lleida.