Raoul Bianchiis Reader in International Tourism and Development in the School of Business and Law at the University of East London. His work encompasses the geopolitics and international political economy of tourism with a particular focus on tourism, border poliics and citizenship as well as issues of tourism, capitalism and development. He has a particular interest in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean and also tourism in islands and coastal regions. He has been involved in and led a range of funded research projects including 'Mediterranean Voices' (2002-2006, Euromed Heritage II), and is the co-author (with Marcus Stephenson) of Tourism and Citizenship: Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities in the Global Order (Routledge, 2014). He is currently a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a long-standing member of the Research Committee on International Tourism (International Sociological Association). Read More Read Less