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\"\"Stanislav Ivanov (‘Stan’) is a Professor in Tourism Economics at Varna University of Management<\/a> and Director of Zangador Research Institute<\/a>. He currently serves as the President of the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT<\/a>). He is the founder and Editor-in-chief of two academic journals: the European Journal of Tourism Research<\/a>\u00a0(indexed in\u00a0Scopus<\/a> and Web of Science) and ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy <\/a>. Additionally, he serves on the editorial and review boards of over 30 other journals. He authored over 250 publications (books<\/a>, book chapters<\/a>, articles<\/a>, conference reports<\/a>, book reviews<\/a>, and industry reports<\/a>) in the field of robonomics, robotics, artificial intelligence and service automation, hotel marketing, hotel chains, pricing and revenue management, destination marketing and management, tourism\u2019s impact on economic growth, political issues in tourism. Stan keeps close links with the tourism business. He has been several times a lecturer at the largest events<\/a> for tourism professionals in Bulgaria\u00a0\u2013 Travel Academy<\/a>, Hotel Investment Forum<\/a>, and Destination Varna<\/a>. Through Zangador Ltd.<\/a>, Stan conducts trainings<\/a> in Hotel marketing, Pricing and revenue management, Marketing audit, etc., implements marketing research projects, and prepares specialised analyses and reports for various companies. He has specialised<\/a> in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Cyprus, USA, and Italy.<\/p>\n

Stan is happily married with one child and lives in Varna, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Academic profiles:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Orcid<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Researchgate<\/a> \u00a0| \u00a0SSRN<\/a> \u00a0| \u00a0Academia.edu<\/a> \u00a0| \u00a0OSF<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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