Page 4 - Smart tourism: A path to more secure and resilient destinations

Acknowledgements

The development of this deliverable was led and coordinated by Alberto Bernal Garcia (Indra/
Minsait) together with Sergio Koop Quesada (Indra/Minsait), Manuel Bosch Gayo (Indra/Minsait),
John Mora (Globaldit) and Enrique Lancis (Globaldit). This deliverable was developed in the
Working Group 4 on Tourism, Health and Resilience Management from the perspective of a Smart
City Platform of the U4SSC Thematic Group on City Platforms.

The authors would like to thank Ramón Ferri Tormo (Oficina de Ciudad Inteligente, City of Valencia),
Leader of the U4SSC Thematic Group on City Platforms and Sandra Carvao and Lorena Villar (World
Tourism Organization (UNWTO)) for their comments.

The authors wish to thank all experts participating in Working Group 4 for their inputs to the
discussion, as well as the feedback and review provided during the development of this deliverable.

The authors wish to thank the U4SSC management team: Nasser Al Marzouqi (U4SSC Chairman),
Katrina Naut, Abdurahman M. Al Hassan, Paolo Gemma, Tania Marcos and Giampiero Bambagioni
(U4SSC Vice-chairmen) for their assistance and contributions.

The authors also extend their gratitude to the contributing organizations along with their
representatives: Oliver Hillel from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lucy Winchester
and Vera Kiss from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Simone
Borelli from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cristina Bueti, Yining Zhao, Mythili Menon
and Victoria Papp (ITU), Iryna Usava from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
James Murombedzi from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Guilherme
Canela from the Regional Bureau for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Martina Otto and Sharon Gil
from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Matthew Ulterino from the United Nations
Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), Motsomi Maletjane from the United Nations
Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), Andre Dzikus, Tania Lim, Jean Yves and
Robert Lewis-Lettington from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat),
Gulnara Roll from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Mark Draeck,
Katarina Barunica Spoljaric and Nicholas Dehod from the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), William Kennedy from the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP),
Soumaya Ben Dhaou and Judy Backhouse from the United Nations University – Operating Unit
on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), Sylvia Hordosch from the United Nations
Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), Alexander Baklanov
from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and Sandra Carvao from the World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO).

ii Smart tourism: A path to more secure and resilient destinations