Selected institutional roles and responsibilities (recent)
- Member of the Doctoral Board of the PhD Programme in Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna (https://phd.unibo.it/statistics/en )
- President, Clust-ER Tourism, Emilia-Romagna Region (https://tourism.clust-er.it/ )
- Board Member, Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism (CAST), University of Bologna (https://centri.unibo.it/turismo/it )
- (2021–2024) Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism (CAST), University of Bologna
Academic degrees and certifications
1994 – PhD in Statistical Methodology for Scientific Research, University of Bologna.
Direction of post-graduate courses, centres and permanent observatories
Since July 2021 – Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism (CAST), University of Bologna.
Since the academic year 2009/2010 – Director of advanced and continuing education programmes at the University of Bologna focused on business (travel) intelligence for corporate travel managers.
Since 2001 – Founder and Director (appointment renewed to date) of the Observatory on Business Travel of Italian Firms at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna (with the patronage of the former School of Tourism Sciences – now CAST – of the University of Bologna).
From 2000 to 2012 – Founder and Director of the Regional Hotel Business Cycle Observatory at the Faculty of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna.
From 1996 to 2002 – Deputy Director of the Master in Management and Development of Tourism Services, Faculty of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna.
Academic year 2000/2001 – Deputy Director of the European Advanced Training Course “Master in Congress Management”, Faculty of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna.
Direction of research projects (recent years)
2026–2028 – Leader of Work Package 2, cross-border Italy–Croatia project INNERTOUR – A New Transformative Tourism Route for Inner Experiences.
2023 – Scientific coordinator of the departmental unit “Technological Innovation in Tourism Services” within the Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network.
2022–2023 – Scientific coordinator of deliverable D.5.4.3 “Mapping of the tourism enterprises” in the PNRR project “ECOSISTER – Ecosistema Territoriale di Innovazione dell’Emilia-Romagna”.
2022–2023 – Scientific coordinator of the interdepartmental research group (DiSA, DSE and STAT) for the project “Analysis and optimisation of the information capacity of a business intelligence system for destination management” (funded by APT Emilia-Romagna).
2022–2023 – Scientific coordinator of the “Tourism” group within the project “Romagna Next: strategic plan for Romagna”, funded under the European call MediAree – “Next Generation City”.
2019–2023 – Co-director of the “Business Travel Observatory” project, carried out in collaboration between CAST–University of Bologna and Politecnico di Milano (Digital Tourism Observatory).
2019–2022 – Leader of Work Package 3 in the cross-border Italy–Croatia project EXCOVER: EXperience, discOVER & valorise hidden treasure towns and sites of the Adriatic area.
2021–2022 – Coordinator of the UniBo/Archdiocese of Bologna research group: “NRRP Tourism and Artistic–Religious Heritage”.
2020–2022 – Scientific coordinator of the UniBo project “The short-term effects of Covid-19: the Hotel Activity Index”.
