Carlos Romero is the Director of Research, Development and Innovation of SEGITTUR, www.segittur.es, a public company belonging to the Spanish Ministry of  Industry and Tourism, area from which he is responsible of promoting innovation and use of new technologies at the tourism sector. During the last decade he has been in charge of the Spanish National Innovative Tourism Startups & Entrepreneurs Program (Emprendetur) and the Smart Tourism Destination initiative.  

Carlos got a degree in Economics, and IE Executive Master in Tourism Management. For several years he has been working at the UN Tourism with different responsibilities as Executive Director of the UNWTO Affiliate Members and as General Manager of the UNWTO.Themis Foundation. He has extensive experience in the tourism sector, both nationally and internationally in the fields of tourism innovation, new technologies, travel tech sector, smart destinations, economic impacts of tourism and tourism information systems.