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Álvaro López-López (Edited By)
Álvaro López-López has a PhD in Geography from Arts Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Geography, UNAM, and also a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Geography at UNAM where he teaches "Space and tourism". His basic line of research has been the "geography of tourism in Mexico", from which he has developed research projects about "sex tourism," "dark tourism" and the "intersection between the geography of tourism and the geography of animals" among others. He was the president of the Mexican Academy of Tourism Research.
Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas (Edited By)
Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas has a PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Postdoctoral fellowship in the Bioethics University Program (UNAM) in zooethics. Academic fellow at Monash University and the University of Sydney, both in Australia. He is currently a full-time associate researcher at the Institute of Social Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales) UNAM. He is also a professor of "Geography and Ethics" and "Animal geography" in the bachelor degree in Geography at UNAM, and profesor of "Ethics, territory and environment" in the posgraduate programme of Geography, at UNAM. He is one of the coordinators of both the Permanent Seminar on Critical Studies in Tourism and the Permanent Seminar on Critical Animal Studies.
Carol Kline (Edited By)
Carol Kline is a Professor and the Director of the Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Appalachian State University. Her teaching and research interests have historically focused broadly on tourism sustainability, including topics such as foodie segmentation, craft beverages, agritourism, tourism entrepreneurship, and tourism in developing economies. However, she now gears her research solely on animals and she teaches a course called Animals, Tourism, & Sustainability. She is part of the Race, Ethnicity, and Social Equity in Tourism (RESET) initiative, which includes animals within the study of social equity. She is founder of Fanimal Inc., a non-profit that helps individuals find animal-focused careers.
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