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Foreword

This publication was developed within the framework of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities
(U4SSC) initiative.

Acknowledgments

The development of this deliverable was led and coordinated by Cristina Bueti (ITU) and Ramón
Ferri (Former Smart City Officer of the Valencia City Council, current Director of Institutional
Relations at SEGITTUR, Spain). The deliverable is based on the support and participation of the
staff of the Smart City Office of the Valencia City Council, led by Pere Fuset, Delegate Councillor for
Digital Agenda and Electronic Administration, Ernesto Faubel, Víctor Sancho, José Pinedo, Ángel
Gómez and Javier Llavador, together with the work of several members of U4SSC who diligently
contributed to the preparation of the report.

The Valencia City Council authors would like to express its sincere gratitude to the experts who
have participated in the working group, particularly Hani Eskandar (ITU), Yolanda Martínez (ITU),
Vikash Madduri (ITU) and Victoria Papp (ITU), for their input to the discussion, along with relevant
feedback and reviews that contributed to the overall enhancement of this report.

The authors would like to give special thanks for the integration of visions, good practices and
valuable tourism use cases showcasing the wide utility of smart tourism in a smart city environment
to SEGITTUR (a state-owned company attached to the Spanish Secretary of State for Tourism in
charge of the Smart Destination Project), led by its President Enrique Martínez, to the VP of the
Smart Cities and Smart Tourism commission from AMETIC John Mora Williams, and to the vocal
member of UNE Technical Committee for Standardization 178, Daniel Da Silva.

The authors wish to thank the U4SSC management team: Nasser Al Marzouqi (U4SSC Chairman),
Katrina Naut, Abdurahman M. Al Hassan, Paolo Gemma, Tania Marcos and Giampiero Bambagioni
(U4SSC Vice-Chairman) for their assistance and contributions.

The authors also extend their gratitude to the contributing organizations along with their
representatives: Oliver Hillel from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Lucy Winchester
and Vera Kiss from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),
Simone Borelli from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cristina Bueti (ITU), Deniz
Susar from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Iryna Usava
from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Murombedzi from the United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Guilherme Canela from the Regional Bureau
for Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Martina Otto and Sharon Gil from United Nations Environment

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