**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Rub ´en Camilo Lois Gonz ´alez** is Full Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was the General Director for Tourism of the Autonomous Government of Galicia (2005–2009). Currently, he is the coordinator of the research group ANTE (Territorial Analysis), at the University of Santiago de Compostela, director of the Department of Geography, and Vice-president of the International Geographical Union. His main research lines are Geography and Urban Planning, Regional Studies, and Social Geography and Regional Planning. He has been an invited Professor at the Universities of Le Mans, Caen and Toulouse-Le Mirail (France), Bergen and Finmark University College (Norway), and visiting Professor in Calgary (Canada). He is the author of more than two hundred publications and has published a considerable number of articles in scientific reviews, such as Geographical Research, Tourism Management Perspective, Die Erde, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, and Tourism and Hospitality Research. He has been the main researcher of various international projects, including the "Spatial Indicators for a Europe 2020 Strategy Territorial Analysis" from the ESPON Programme. He is a counselor for research in Italy and Romania.

**Yamil ´e P´erez Guilarte** is Interim Lecturer of Didactics of Social Sciences at the University of A Coruna and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Studies and Development of Galicia (IDEGA) of ˜ the University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds an International PhD in Tourism Management and Planning from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2014). She is a member of the Geography group of Tourism, Leisure and Recreation of the Spanish Association of Geography (AGE). Her main lines of research are heritage education, cultural and urban tourism, sustainable management, and application of big data in tourism. She has published in international scientific peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Heritage Tourism, Sustainability, Italian Journal of Planning Practice, Cuadernos de Turismo, Revista Anuario de Turismo y Sociedad, and Revista Investigaciones Tur´ısticas. She has also contributed to chapters in books published by prestigious publishers, such as Springer, Peter Lang, and Thomson Reuters. She has been invited as a reviewer in several scientific publications. She has presented the results of her research at various international conferences and has been a member of several organizations and scientific committees. She has also participated as a member of the research team in various competitive research projects at regional, national, and European levels.

**Lucrezia Lopez** is Lecturer of Geography at the Department of Geography of the University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a European PhD in Geography from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2012). Her main research lines include the following: human and cultural geography; tourism geography; heritage and heritage management; geography of pilgrimages and geography of sacred spaces (cultural itineraries and the Way of St. James); geo-humanities. She has published in international scientific reviews, such as *Mobilities, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Gender, Place and Culture, Emotion, Space and Society, and Sustainability*. She has also published books and has contributed to chapters in prestigious publishers, such as Springer and Thomson Reuters. She has worked on and is a member of various research projects at international, national, and regional levels. She has participated in the organization of international R&D activities and has presented several works at national and international conferences. She is a reviewer in several scientific academic journals and research projects. She has been Visiting Researcher at the Universite Paris 1- ` La Sorbonne (France), at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) (United Kingdom), and at the University of Bari (Italy) and the University of Siena-Arezzo.
