**About the Editor**

**Jo ˜ao Rom˜ao** has extensive experience as a consultant, researcher, and instructor in tourism, urban studies, and regional science. He is an economist and holds a Ph.D. in Tourism (completed in 2012). Since then, he has almost 50 publications and 500 citations, including top journals in tourism, environmental science, and regional and urban studies, along with a single-authored book and several works as an editor. Other interests besides tourism economics, management, and planning include innovation dynamics, creative economies, and sustainable development, often applying spatial econometric methods and integrating concepts from new tendencies in economic geography into tourism studies. With substantial international experience, living and working in different countries during the last 10 years (Portugal, USA, Netherlands, and Japan), Joao is also ˜ a co-chair of the cluster on Tourism, Leisure and Recreation of NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research), a member of the editorial board of several academic publications and a founding member of the Regional Science Academy and the Euro-Asian Tourism Studies Association.
