**About the Editor**

**Antonietta Ivona** Ph.D. and Associate Professor at Department of Economy and Finance, University of Bari (Italy). Her research interests are in different fields as Economic and Political Geography, Geography of Tourism, Regional economics, Transports. Her research in progress include Geography of Tourism, Geography of Transport, Geography of inner areas and regional impacts, Geography of Agriculture. She is also a member of many Editorial Advisory Boards and she is a scientific advisor for Publishing Companies. She coordinated several research projects and she is a territorial consultant for public administrations.

## **Preface to "Sustainability of Rural Tourism and Promotion of Local Development"**

Rural tourism has been considered as a chance to promote local development, thus representing an economic activity that involves a change in rural areas. One of the priorities of rural tourism development is its sustainability. The purpose of this Special Issue is to investigate the possible combination of sustainability and the economic and social development of activities related to rural tourism through extant literature reviews and case studies. Our published articles include empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics:


We sincerely thank all authors contributed to this Special Issue, who had provided valuable opinions and interesting insights.
