Salvador Anton Clavé is a Full Professor of regional geographical analysis at Rovira i Virgili University where he serves as Director of the Doctoral Program in Tourism and Leisure. He is currently Research Scholar at the George Washington University and Director of Research at the Science and Technology Park for Tourism and Leisure of Catalonia. His research concentrates on the analysis of the evolution of tourism destinations, tourism and city design and planning, the globalization of theme parks and attractions, the impact of ICT on tourism and issues concerning tourism policies and local development.
Patrick Brouder is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography, Brock University, Canada. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Research Associate at the Department of Tourism Studies and Geography, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.
Doris A. Carson is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University (Sweden). Her research focuses on the nexus between mobilities, innovation processes, and economic development opportunities in rural and remote communities. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on tourism development in resource peripheries, local systems-of-innovation dynamics, and short-term population mobilities (including tourist, labour and Indigenous mobilities), with a particular focus on remote South Australia and the Northern Territory (Australia).
Dean B. Carson is a Professor of human geography interested in the population dynamics of rural and sparsely populated areas. Dean’s particular interest is in how the mobility of people in to, out of, and around rural areas impacts prospects for economic and social development. Dean has a background working with large demographic and social datasets in Australia, Canada, Scotland and Sweden. Dean’s PhD examined the use of Internet technologies in peripheral tourism destinations.
Christopher Fullerton is an Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Geography, Brock University, Canada. He is also a member of Brock’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre. His research interests include rural community economic development and land use planning, as well as urban public transit planning and policy.
Alison Gill is a Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver with a joint appointment in the Department of Geography and the School of Resource and Environmental Management. Her research interests are in the evolution of destinations with respect to issues of growth management, sustainability and governance.
Henrik Halkier is a Professor of regional and tourism studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. His main research interests are destination development, food tourism, and destination governance.
Robert Hassink is a Professor of economic geography at Kiel University, Germany and Visiting Professor in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. His main research areas are theories of economic geography, regional innovation policies, industrial restructuring and regional economic development in Western Europe and East Asia, particularly South Korea.
Dimitri Ioannides is a Professor of human geography at Mid-Sweden University in Östersund. He has varied research interests in tourism including the economic geography of the tourism sector as well as tourism within the context of sustainable development.
Laura James is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. Her main research interests are regional development, food tourism, and cross-sectoral knowledge dynamics.
Mulan Ma is a researcher and lecturer in tourism management at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. She received her PhD in Geography at Kiel University. Her research interests include evolutionary economic geography, tourism economics, tourism management and planning.
Jasper Meekes is a PhD researcher in the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen and the European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI) at Stenden University of Applied Sciences. His dissertation deals with the role of leisure in regional development in the Dutch province of Fryslân. In this project the topic of leisure serves as a test case for exploring how a perspective based on complexity thinking can be applied in spatial planning. The project is part of the research programme of University Campus Fryslân (UCF), financed by the Province of Fryslân.
Piotr Niewiadomski is an economic geographer interested in the worldwide development of the tourism production system, the global production networks of tourist firms and the impact of tourism on economic development in host destinations. His research mainly focuses on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the context of post-communist restructuring in CEE after 1989. He is now Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Constanza Parra is a social scientist with interdisciplinary interests in the ways societies relate to the natural environment and deal with contemporary sustainability challenges. She was trained as sociologist in Chile and obtained her PhD in France working on multi-level governance of protected areas. She is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Geography & Tourism, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven. Previously, she was Rosalind Franklin Fellow at University of Groningen and an AFR/Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at University of Luxembourg. She researches and writes on social sustainability, nature-culture interactions, governance of socio-ecological systems and sustainable (eco)tourism.
Gert de Roo is a Professor of spatial planning at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, University of Groningen and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. His research focuses on non-linear development of urban space and place, relating complexity thinking and planning theory, decision-making models concerning interventions within the urban environment, and managing transitions of space. De Roo has been President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and co-chair of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE). He is editor-in-chief of AESOP’s digital platform InPlanning and editor of the Ashgate Publishing Series on Planning Theory.
Cinta Sanz-Ibáñez is a PhD Candidate of Tourism and Leisure at the Department of Geography at Rovira i Virgili University (Catalonia). Her research has been funded by a PhD research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education. Her work mainly focuses on tourism destination evolution, with a particular interest in contributing to integrate this field of research into the whole discussion around evolution of places and regions within the economic geography mainstream.
Peter Williams is a Professor Emeritus, geographer and planner in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on identifying policy, planning, and development approaches that lead to more sustainable tourism destinations.
Julie Wilson is a researcher and lecturer in the Faculty of Tourism and Geography of Rovira i Virgili University and a lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has been a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow (2004-07) and a Fulbright Schuman Advanced Research Scholar (2008-09). She is a Member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission for the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change and has edited a number of research monographs, with several articles published in international refereed journals.