Dr Raoul Valerio Bianchi is Associate Professor in Tourism at the University of East London. He has developed and carried out a range of funded research projects into tourism development, sustainable tourism planning, World Heritage and the cultural politics of heritage, principally in the Canary Islands. He has also worked on EU-funded programmes including EU-TEMPUS and was part of the coordinating team for the Euromed Heritage II project, Mediterranean Voices (www.med-voices.org), which explores urban intangible heritage in 13 Mediterranean cities. In 2013 he co-authored Tourism & Citizenship which continues to be a highly cited reference on the subject.