Spanish Tourism Geographies: Territorial Diversity and Different Approaches

Asunción Blanco-Romero is Tenured Associate Professor of Geography at the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona (Spain). She is a member of the TUDISTAR research group (Tourism and new social and socio-territorial dynamics) in which she has participated in several research projects. She has been president of the ＂Tourism, leisure and recreation＂ working group of the Spanish Geography Association. She is also the editor or the scientific journal DAG (Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica). Her research and teaching interests include resilience tourism and local development, globalization and sustainability degrowth strategies, territorial planning, geographic and gender issues in cooperative development, and critical perspective in tourism studies.

Macià Blázquez-Salom is Professor in Geography at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He teaches and researches on tourism, sustainability and land use planning. He has been visitor scholar in universities of Mexico (Toluca and La Paz), Nicaragua (UNAN), Dominican Republic (INTEC), Austria (Salzburg), Germany (Rurh-Bochum), Sweden (Mid-Sweden) and the Netherlands (Wageningen). As a way to link activism and research, within the framework of Radical Geography and Political Ecology, he collaborates with social movements in Spain, particularly in the Balearic Islands, but also in Latin America.