Organization

University of Coimbra

The University of Coimbra has eight Faculties (Letters, Law, Medicine, Science and Technology, Pharmacy, Economics, Psychology and Education Sciences, Sports Science and Physical Education) and over 22 thousand students. With an unavoidable historical heritage, the University of Coimbra celebrates its 733nd anniversary in 2023. With a unique material and immaterial heritage, fundamental in the history of European and world scientific culture, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013.

Universidade Europeia

The European University offers access to quality student-centered higher education. It is distinguished by its capacity for innovation and its differentiating academic model which is based on the principles of quality, internationalization and proximity to companies and the labor market. The European University offers Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees, as well as Postgraduate courses in various areas such as Management, Law, Psychology, Human Resources, Marketing, Design, Communication, Sports, Information Technology and Technology and stands out as the leading higher education institution in the teaching of Hospitality Management and Tourism.

ESHTE - The Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies

ESHTE is a polytechnic higher education institution of public law, at the service of society that aims at the high level qualification and excellence of the students who attend it, in the areas of catering, hospitality, leisure and tourism, through the promotion, production and dissemination of knowledge and culture, as well as the cultural, artistic, technological and scientific training, both of its students and of its employees and teachers, in a framework of international reference. ESHTE's training and research offer is enhanced by the School's location - in the Lisbon/Cascais/Sintra tourism axis - as well as by its insertion in a training center with unique structures at the higher education level in the areas of tourism, hotel and restaurant management.

CEGOT - Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning

Scientific research unit focused on the production and dissemination of knowledge in different areas of Geography. Formally recognized by the Foundation for Science and Technology since 2008, it results from the cooperation of the Departments of Geography of the University of Coimbra and the University of Porto. CEGOT is thus above all a space for collaboration, in which individual research interests are articulated with collective objectives, gathered around a geographical vision of development, both in its conceptual aspect and in its articulation with planning and spatial planning.

Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation

CiTUR is an R&D unit of the national higher education polytechnic subsystem that associates 17 institutions (universities and polytechnics) and involves more than 200 researchers. Its mission is the development of applied research with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary character, the production and sharing of scientific knowledge in tourism. It aims to be a leader in applied research, development and innovation; to be recognized by civil society and business for its superior ability to generate and share knowledge in tourism.

Turismo de Portugal

Integrated in the Ministry of Economy and Sea, Turismo de Portugal is the National Tourist Authority. National Tourist Authority. Responsible for the promotion, enhancement and sustainability of tourism activity, it brings together in a single entity all the institutional competences related to the dynamization of tourism, from supply to demand. With a privileged relationship with other public entities and economic agents in the country and abroad, Turismo de Portugal is committed to strengthening tourism as one of the main growth engines of the Portuguese economy.

Turismo do Centro

Turismo Centro de Portugal is a public collective entity, associative in nature, with administrative and financial autonomy and its own assets. It is the Regional Tourism Authority responsible for promoting tourism in Central Portugal. (Mission of enhancing and developing the tourism potential of the respective regional tourism area, the internal promotion and in the wider internal market of regional tourist destinations, as well as the integrated management of destinations in the framework of regional tourism development, in accordance with the guidelines and directives of the tourism policy defined by the Government and the pluri-annual plans of the central administration and the municipalities that integrate it).

Vila Galé (partner in accommodation – 10% discount and special rates apply for DSOTT'23 participants)

The Vila Galé Group is one of the main Portuguese hotel groups and is part of the ranking of the 182 largest hotel companies worldwide. It is composed by several companies, from which stands out, by its dimension and importance, the VILA GALÉ - Sociedade de Empreendimentos Turísticos, S.A., which is part of Rating 1 of Portuguese companies. This company, founded in 1986, is dedicated to the operation and management of all hotel units that make up the group and also to the realization of projects and the construction of new tourist developments. The Vila Galé Group is currently responsible for the management of 37 hotel units: 27 in Portugal and 10 in Brazil, with a total of 8,002 rooms and 18,260 beds.

Eventkey

Eventkey has the best event management platform on the market as well as the best solutions for creating WebApp's / MobileApp's. It also has the latest equipment on the market to meet the needs of its clients.

AHRESP

The Associação da Hotelaria, Restauração e Similares de Portugal (AHRESP) was founded in 1896. Currently, it is the largest business association in the defense and representation of a sector that is one of the most important locomotives of development and economy of Portuguese society: Tourism. We have scale, we support your business on several fronts. We are, above all, YOUR NETWORK, as we intervene daily in key points for the defense and progress of your business. Behind Who We Are, there is an unwavering mission, which is the defense, support and representativeness of our members, who are the reason for our existence.

Delta Cafés

Delta Coffee, in the form of its founder, Manuel Rui Azinhais Nabeiro, brought the magic of coffee into the business model.
Well versed in the coffee market and an entrepreneur by nature, Rui Nabeiro decided to create his own brand of coffee in 1961. In the Alentejo town of Campo Maior, in a small warehouse with 50 square metres of space and without many resources, activity started with just two small roasters with a capacity of 30 kg. The relationship between Delta and its clients is just the same as the relationship between the man at the counter, and his regular customer, who have come to trust each other and to share life in the flavour and aroma of a cup of coffee.

Águas de Coimbra, officially called AC, Águas de Coimbra, E.M., is a municipal company, statutorily, administratively and financially autonomous, with its share capital fully owned by Coimbra City Hall. It reached the first place in the market study that evaluates customer satisfaction and experience, carried out by the New University of Lisbon and the Portuguese Association for Quality - the BECX 2022 (Best European Customer Experience) or Best Customer Experience.

Coimbra is close to everything. Coimbra has everything. Coimbra is the place.

The municipality is committed to supporting the creation of startups in their leverage and internationalization, to consolidating the health and software clusters, promoting the development of other clusters with potential, and to making Coimbra an increasingly competitive and attractive city for business ideas, entrepreneurs, and national and international investors.

We are a collaborative network of people and laboratories serving our customers. This network is integrated into the more global ALS network in more than 70 countries, which allows us to offer our customers a unique range of services. All the human and technological resources of ALS Global are thus at the disposal of Iberian companies for their expansion, qualification, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement of their products and processes. We exist to serve our customers, companies and public institutions and to provide them with the solutions they need, every time. Every day we will be closer to our customers, to satisfy their needs, in Portugal and in the World.

Biosphere helps you to define, organise and make your sustainable goals and priorities visible. A model to work on your own personalised sustainability plan: you decide which criteria to include in your plan, organising your efforts by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and United Nations goals. Our system contributes to highlighting your good practices and improving your positioning, allowing your organisation to reach a market that is looking for more sustainable experiences.

The company Caves do Solar de São Domingos was founded by Elpídio Martins Semedo in 1937 and, since 1970, was directed by Lopo de Sousa Freitas, responsible for the great development of the house over the last decades.. Initially focused on the production of sparkling wines, with which it has obtained high national and international recognition, over time the range of products has been expanded, adding old spirits, spirits and Bairrada wines, always maintaining a constant concern with quality. Today, the Solar de São Domingos Cellars house in their galleries more than two million bottles of sparkling wine - classic method, allowing an average ageing period of 2 to 10 years in the cellar, many thousands of bottled wines and hundreds of quartolas in French oak for their famous brandies. The Aguardente Bagaceira "SÃO DOMINGOS", produced in its own stills, continues to lead the market with the same quality as ever.