Tourism and Degrowth

Robert Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He is the author of Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism (2014) and co-editor of NatureTM Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age (2014).

Ivan Murray holds a PhD in Geography from the University of the Balearic Islands and a MsC in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh. He is Associate Professor of geography at the University of the Balearic Islands, where he is also a member of the research group on sustainability and space. His research merges political ecology, political economy and ecological economics of tourism. Recently, he co-edited Turistificacion global: Perspectivias criticas en turismo with Ernest Canada. He is also involved in social movements.

Asuncion Blanco-Romero is Associate Professor of Geography at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and also participates with the National University of Distance Education, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the OSTELEA School of Tourism and Hospitality. She is member of TUDISTAR research group (tourism and new social and territorial dynamics), with which she has participated in several research projects. Her research focuses on cultural and heritage tourism, new tourisms and local development, tourism and degrowth and geography and gender issues in regional development.

Macia Blazquez-Salom is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research interests include tourism, territorial planning and nature conservation from a sustainability perspective. He has been visiting scholar in several European and Central American universities. His most recent publications deal with urban and regional planning regulation and the expansion of the Balearic Islands' hotel chains in Central America and the Caribbean.