**About the Editor**

**Juan A. Campos-Soria** is an Associate Professor of Economics and Tourism Economics at the University of Malaga, Spain. He has led different seminars on tourism economics at the Christel ´ Dehaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute (University of Nottingham, UK). He has participated in international research projects for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (UK) and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), as well as numerous national projects for public and private institutions. He has published papers in leading journals, such as *Annals of Tourism Research*, *Tourism Management*, *Journal of Sustainable Tourism*, *Journal of Travel Research*, *International Journal of Hospitality Management*, *Tourism Economics*, and *Applied Economics*, among others, and collaborated with well-known researchers in tourism economics, such as professors M. T. Sinclair, A. Blake, and J. L. Eugenio-Mart´ın. He has been a working Editorial Board Member of various journals, such as *Tourism Economics*, *Tourism Analysis*, and *Tourism & Management Studies*, in recent years. He has also collaborated on different book chapters, among which are several published in *Recent Developments in the Economics of Tourism* (Edward Elgar Publishing), edited by Professors L. Dwyer and N. Seetaram. His main current lines of research are the economic analysis of tourism, gender economics, and the labour market.

## **Preface to "Optimal Tourism Development"**

This work comprises a selection of papers that have significantly advanced the study of sustainable tourism from different perspectives. The papers have been selected for their theoretical and empirical contributions as well as their contribution to informed policy making. Some articles represent advances in the area of tourist supply and demand modelling from an environmental approach, paying attention to tourism planning and development. This collection of papers will have particular appeal to researchers, graduate students, and tourism economists in the private sector, as well as to policy-making organizations for improving sustainable tourism.

> **Juan A. Campos-Soria** *Editor*
