Anna TronoProfessor Anna Trono is an experienced researcher in tourism, environmental problems and urban planning in EU Countries. These skills and competencies have been acquired during the study visits as academic visitor at the Geography Departments of The London School and Political Science and Glasgow university. In the last twenty years she has focused her research on environmental heritage, cultural routes and cultural/religious tourism. She has published numerous papers and books on these themes, many of which in connection with large-scale projects involving international universities and under the aegis of EU research programs and inter-university accords. As chief scientist or work-group member, has worked on the preparation and management of about thirty international (EU) research projects.Her international academic activities included so far participation in more than seventy international conferences also as keynote speaker. She organized numerous national and international workshops and International conferences on socio-economic problems and European regional policies, environmental issues, cultural and religious tourism. She is Member of steering committee of GU-CGoG Steering Committee (International Geographical Union-Commission Geography of Governance) (2016- 2024) and of European Cultural Route Project “The European Routes of Emperor Charles V” and of European Association of Vie Francigene Europe.Valentina CastronuovoValentina Castronuovo is Phd in Tourism Geography. She is a researcher in tourism, cultural heritage, environmental and, more generally, in cultural and tourism development for the local contexts.She has been collaborating with the chair of Geography of Tourism in the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Salento since 2014. She has participated by invitation in international and national conferences and workshops, among the last: the International conference “Energy, beauty, participation: cultural heritage adaptive reuse as driver of circular regeneration and sustainable regional development”, held in Naples on 12-13 June 2022, and the 1st Cultural Routes Academic Workshop organised by the European Institute of Cultural Routes, in cooperation with the University Network for Cultural Routes Studies, held online on 9 December 2022. She has worked as a cultural planner for both private and public entities.Shi is a member of the working group A.Ge.I (Association of Italian Geographers) “Territorial Reorganization and Local Development” for the study of local development experiences and the configuration, in this context, of the concept of local identity;. Shi is a scientific reviewer for national and international journals, and she is the author of contributions and articles in journals, books, projects and research reports, published both internationally and nationally.Petros KosmasDr Petros Kosmas is a Lecturer at the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management (HTM) of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). In addition, he is an assistant coordinator and researcher at the Research Centre for Social Science and Regional Development "HERACLITUS" of CUT. His academic qualifications include a PhD and a Master's degree in Sustainable Development from Harokopio University of Athens (HUA), Greece. He served as the Department Coordinator of Business Administration at Cyprus College from 2013 until 2019. He represents the Research Centre "HERACLITUS" and the Department of HTM of CUT on the UNITWIN-UNESCO NETWORK "Culture, Tourism, and Development" led by the Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Among his research interests is the understanding of processes leading to Sustainable Tourism, the evaluation of tourism externalities and the investigation of precarious forms of employment in the hospitality and tourism industry.
