Vânia Costa (Costa, V.), is Coordinator Professor at the School of Hospitality and Tourism of Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave. She is Head of the Department of Tourism and Marketing, since 2020. Post-doctoral in Tourism and Advanced Training Course in Tourism and PhD in Economics. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation. She is a full researcher at CiTUR, collaborating researcher of UNIAG and GOVCOPP. She has participated in several research projects funded by the European Commission and FCT (Portuguese public agency that supports science, technology, and innovation). Coordinator of the “Profile and Trends of Human Capital in the Tourism Sector" project and she is currently IR of the project TalentTOUR – “Talent Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector” and part of the research team of the project CEGaS – “Circular Economy for Sustainable Gastronomy: Diagnosis and adoption of good practices in the restaurant sector”, both funded by CiTUR, trough FCT/MCTES. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4202-8779