Personal identification

Full name

Vanda Vereb

Citation names

• Vereb, Vanda
• Vanda N. Veréb

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

6C1C-F0DF-2077

ORCID iD

0000-0002-8894-457X

Researcher Id

E-5918-2018

Email addresses

• vanda.vereb@utad.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Social Sciences - Media and Communications
• Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management
• Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Cultural Geograpphy
• Social Sciences - Psychology
• Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Hungarian (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Serbian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

	Degree	Classification
2015/10/01 - 2020/12/09 Concluded	Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing and Strategy (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "The effect of fear and the cosmopolitan value system reflected in the travellers’ perception of destination image and travel decision-making" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004/09/01 Concluded	Economist with specialisation in International Business (Bacharelato) Debreceni Egyetem Gazdaságtudományi Kar, Hungary "Challenges of Intercultural Communication" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Excellent

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/05/17 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão, Portugal
	Universidade Lusíada - Centro de Investigação Organizações, Mercados e Gestão Industrial, Portugal, Portugal
2021/09/17 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes Centro de Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2017 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/01/26 - 2021/09/17	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/04/01 - Current	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	London School of Design and Marketing, United Kingdom
2022/02/15 - 2022/12/31	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	London School of Design and Marketing, United Kingdom
2017/10/01 - 2022/06/30	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam, Vietnam
2005/07/01 - 2005/09/01	Tutor (Polytechnic Teacher)	LHA Louisiana-Himalaya Association, Dharamsala, India, India
2004/10/01 - 2004/12/01	Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Organization of High-schools and Universities in Romania & AIESEC International Organization of Economist Students, Romania, Romania

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/18 - Current	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão, Portugal
2014/08/01 - 2021/09/17	Freelance Management Consultant	Freelancer, Portugal
2011/12/01 - 2014/08/01	Overseer of Operations	United Christian Church of Dubai (UCCD), United Arab Emirates
2009/01/01 - 2013/02/01	Senior Management Consultant	Ethos Consultancy, Dubai, UAE, United Arab Emirates
2008/02/01 - 2008/12/01	Business Analyst	crm Middle East, Dubai, UAE (outsourced customer service unit of BMW ME), United Arab Emirates
2006/02/01 - 2007/12/01	Financial Analyst	Infineon Technologies AG, Porto, Portugal, Portugal
2005/09/01 - 2006/02/01	Project Manager	IIR, Institute for International Research, Budapest, Hungary, Hungary
2005/02/01 - 2005/07/01	Business Analyst	Evalueserve Pvt. Ltd. Market research and Intellectual Property Service firm, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India, India
2004/01/01 - 2004/06/01	Marketing Assistant	Pionir Ltd. Chocolate, Candy and Biscuit Factory, Subotica, Serbia, Serbia

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/09/17 - Current	Data4LowDensity UIDP/04011/2020 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Trás-os-Montes Centro de Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Unidade de Investigação em Governança, Competitividade e Políticas Públicas UID/CPO/04058/2019 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação em Governança Competitividade e Políticas Públicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2024/05/17 - Current	Marketing UID/4005/2020 Researcher Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal

Publications

Book chapter	Vanda Veréb; Carla Marques; Livia Madureira; Carlos Marques; Tigran Keryan; Rui Silva. "Systematic Literature Review on Rural Well-Being Measurement". 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-74672-7_23 Vanda N. Veréb. "Travellers' Resilience to Major Travel Risks of Today: Global Terrorism and Pandemic Disease, Opportunities and Challenges for Small Tourism Businesses". In Resiliency Models and Addressing Future Risks for Family Firms in the Tourism Industry, edited by Zehrer, A.; Glowka, G.; Schwaiger, K. M.; Ranacher-Lackner, V., 242-266. IGI Global, 2021. 10.4018/978-1-7998-7352-5.ch010 Alexandra França; Silja Frankenbach; Vanda Veréb; Alexandra Vilares; Antonio Moreira. "Much More Than Meets the Eye". In Unveiling the Challenges Behind Nascent Entrepreneurship. United States, 2020. 10.4018/978-1-7998-4826-4.ch003 França, Alexandra; Vilares, Alexandra; Frankenbach, Silja; Vereb, Vanda; Moreira, António C.. "The Challenging Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship". In Nascent Entrepreneurship and Successful New Venture Creation, 1-28. IGI Global, 2017. 10.4018/978-1-5225-2936-1.ch001
Conference paper	Pedrosa, Raquel; Vanda N. Veréb. "Apps as travel companions: What motivates or hinders their use?". Paper presented in 5th International Conference on Applied Business and Management (ICABM2024), Porto, 2024. Vanda N. Veréb; Marques, Carla Susana ; Lívia Maria Costa Madureira; Marques, Carlos Peixeira ; Keryan, Tigran; Rui Jorge Rodrigues da Silva. "Systematic Literature Review on Rural Well-being Measurement - The Well-being Barometer of Low-density Territories". Paper presented in Networks, Markets & People, NMP2024, International Symposium, Reggio Calabria, 2024. Tigran Keryan; Livia Madureira; Octavio Sacramento; Vanda Veréb. "The Conceptualisation of Low-density Territories as a Contribution to the Implementation of the New EU Cohesion Policy". 2023. Vanda N. Veréb; Keryan, Tigran; Marques, Carla Susana ; Lívia Maria Costa Madureira; Rui Jorge Rodrigues da Silva. "Systematic Literature Review on Rural Wellbeing Indicators and Measurement Tools". Paper presented in 20th Annual International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), Vermont, 2022. Published
Journal article	Tigran Keryan; Vanda Veréb; Livia Madureira; Ricardo Bento; Luis Ramos; Carla Marques; Octávio Sacramento; Thomas Dax. "Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?". European Planning Studies (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2451395. 10.1080/09654313.2025.2451395 João Teixeira; Bruno Carvalho; Pereira, Sandra; Cristina Sousa; Vanda N. Veréb; Gouveia, António Jorge. "AppCycle - Reducing electronic and textile wastes". Procedia Computer Science 239 (2024): 2126-2134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2024.06.400. Open access • Published Vanda Veréb; Carla Marques; Livia Madureira; Carlos Marques; Tigran Keryan; Rui Silva. "What Is Rural Well-Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*". Rural Sociology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12536. 10.1111/ruso.12536 Vanda Veréb; Helena Nobre; Minoo Farhangmehr. "Cosmopolitan tourists: the most resilient travellers in the face of COVID-19". Service Business (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-022-00482-z. 10.1007/s11628-022-00482-z Vanda N. Veréb. "Cosmopolitan tourists: the resilient segment in the face of terrorism". Tourism Management Perspectives (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2019.100620. doi. 10.1016/j.tmp.2019.100620 Vanda N. Veréb. "A quasi-experiment to map innovation perception and pinpoint innovation opportunities along the tourism experience journey". Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2019.10.003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2019.10.003 Vanda N. Veréb; Helena Nobre; Minoo Farhangmehr. "The fear of terrorism and shift in cosmopolitan values". International Journal of Tourism Cities 4 4 (2018): 452-483. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-03-2018-0024. 10.1108/IJTC-03-2018-0024 Vanda N. Veréb. "Transnational Entrepreneurship as a Win-Win Scenario of International Knowledge Spillover". Journal of the Knowledge Economy (2017): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-017-0496-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-017-0496-7

Award

2023	Best Research Poster - Alumnus of the Doctoral Program of Marketing and Strategy Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Other distinction

2018	Conference Best and Highly Commended Paper Award EuroMed Research Business Institute, Cyprus
2017	Merit Award for outstanding academic achievement University of Minho, School of Economics and Management, Braga, Portugal, Portugal