MDPI 2025 World Tourism Day Session One

School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand;
Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon is currently a professor of Department of Development and Sustainability, and a former Dean of School of Environment, Resources and Development, at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). He has academic background in engineering, economics and systems management, with a PhD degree from University of Pittsburgh, USA. His areas of specialization and research interest include systems approach and management, urban competitiveness and resilience, sustainable tourism, climate change and urbanization, waste recycling and circular economy, strategic and sustainable infrastructure development, and sustainability and impact assessment.

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;
Monika Kuffer is Professor of Sustainability of Rural-Urban Systems at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on sustainable development (SDGs), poverty (deprivation), living quality, and economic development in urban/rural environments using remote sensing, GIS, AI, and Citizen Science methods. She (co) lead several research projects on urban deprivation and environment, e.g., IDEAtlas, SPACE4ALL, ONEKANA, IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem, and CityNext. She co-chairs an international network on deprivation area mapping, IDEAMAPS, and co-leads several research projects on deprivation, urban dynamics, and environment. She is part of the Steering Committee of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), the Bureau of European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL), and SIG chair for the Global South.