Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes
UNICENTRO - Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Campus Irati, Brazil, Brazil
I graduated in Tourism at UNIOESTE - Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Campus Foz do Iguaçu (1999), Brazil, and continued with a specialization in Human Resources Management at UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná. I obtained a Master in Tourism and Hotels Management at Universidad de Extremadura (2003), Spain, and a Ph.D. in Business Management at UP - Universidade Positivo, Brazil. I work as a lecturer in the Department of Tourism at UNICENTRO, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste do Paraná, Brazil. I take part in the following research groups: Innovation and Sustainability; Tourism and Hospitality; and Tourism Interfaces: planning and management. With experience in Tourism and Lodging Industry, I specialized on the following subjects: tourism theory, tourism and hospitality management, tourism and hospitality innovation, human resources in tourism and hotels, events.