Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2019 Proceedings of the International Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, January 30–February 1, 2019

Juho Pesonen is the head of e-tourism research at the University of Eastern Finland, Centre for Tourism Studies. He received his doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland Business School in 2013, with a focus on online tourism marketing. He has been involved in tourism research since 2009 and has managed and worked in several national and international tourism research and development projects and networks. His main research interests are in digital tourism marketing, destination marketing and development, sustainable tourism, and rural and nature-based tourism. 

Julia Neidhardt holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Vienna and a PhD in Computer Science from the TU Wien. In 2010, she joined the TU Wien’s Research Division of E-Commerce. Her research focuses on modeling and predicting complex human behavior, user preferences, and social relations, as well as their dynamics in digital-enabled environments. Of particular interest in this regard are picture-based travel recommender systems, and since 2016 she has been one of the organizers of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour) at the ACM RecSys Conference.