Coastal Tourism in Southern Europe in the XXth century

Brezovec, Tomi. Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Tourism Studies, University of Primorska (Portorož, Slovenia). His main research interest focuses on tourism destination development. He is currently researching historical development of the Adriatic coastal resorts during the 19th and 20th century. The results of his research were published in several articles and book chapters on tourism history. He has been involved in several national and international tourism development projects and has curated several museum exhibitions on tourism development in Slovenia and Croatia. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Tourism History (Taylor & Francis).

Dritsas, Margarita. Professor of European Economic and Social History, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece. Has taught and directed seminars in Greek and foreign Universities on Greek and European Economic & Social History and History of Tourism. Member of the European Business History Association (EBHA); Member of the Advisory board of Journal of Tourism History (2009–2016); Honorary Member of the Hellenic Association of Women in Tourism. Publications on banking, business and tourism history. Recent works on Tourism: “Outline of Tourism in Greece during the Twentieth Century. Continuity and Change,” RHEE 10–2016, pp. 53–81); Margarita Dritsas and Katerina Papadoulaki, Ψηφίδες ιστορίας του ελληνικού τουρισμού (Selected Tiles from the Greek Tourism mosaic), Economia Publ. Athens (2019) (in Greek). Margarita Dritsas & Harry Coccossis (eds), Tourism and Crisis in Europe XIX-XXI centuries. Historical, National, Business History Perspectives. Economia Publishing, Athens (2014); ‘Tourism and Business during the Twentieth Century in Greece: Continuity and Change’ in L. Segreto, C. Manera & M. Pohl (eds), Europe at the Seaside. The economic History of Mass Tourism in the Mediterranean. Berghan Books NY, Oxford 2009.

Heredia, Víctor. PhD and Adjunct Professor of Economic History at the University of Malaga (Andalusia, Spain). His research fields are historical statistics, water supply history, history of education and industrial development in Andalusia in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Kavrečič, Petra. PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Slovenia. Her study field is economic and social history of tourism. She has published a scientific monograph and several scientific articles at home and abroad, co-edited monographs, focusing on the development of modern tourism in today’s western Slovenia and the relation between tourism and political ideology on the case of commemorative practices of WWI battlefields. She has been and is involved in several research projects financed by the Slovene Research Agency. She conducts her research in domestic and foreign archives.

Larrinaga, Carlos. Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Granada (Andalusia, Spain). His research is in the history of tourism, railways in the 19th century and the service sector. He is currently leading an interdisciplinary project on the history of tourism in Spain and Italy in the 20th century, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European FEDER funds. He has undertaken research in several stays at Bordeaux-Montaigne University and at Aberystwyth University. He is the Main Researcher of the project “The tourism during the Civil War and the first Francoism, 1936–1959. State and private companies in the tourist recovery of Spain. A comparative perspective,” funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain and European Regional Development Fund.

Manfredini, Julie. Doctor in contempory history, I specialized in history of tourism. Author of thesis on the history of syndicats d’initiative, published at PUFR, I discussed the place of Côte d’Azur in French tourism during my work. Associate researcher at EIREST (Paris I) and temporary worker at Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle. She teaches the history of tourism there.

Strangio, Donatella. Full Professor of Economic History at the Sapienza University in Rome (Italy). She is Director of the Cultural Heirtage Enhancement International Training Course at the Sapienza University. She is the scientific director of the Migrations/Migrations Series, Ed. Nuova Cultura, Rome. She is a researcher of the project “The tourism during the Civil War and the first Francoism, 1936–1959. State and private companies in the tourist recovery of Spain. A comparative perspective,” funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain and European Regional Development Fund.

Šuligoj, Metod. Associate Professor at the Department for Management in Tourism at the Faculty of tourism studies – Turistica, University of Primorska, Slovenia. His area of research relates to dark tourism, special interest tourism and hospitality management. He often blends and bridges theory from a variety of disciplines (e.g. management, different types of sociology, geography, history) in order to explain social phenomena in tourism, especially in the Balkan and Upper Adriatic context. He utilizes qualitative and quantitative methodology in delving into the complex social phenomena associated with tourism.