Professor Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Full Professor of Economics and Business Management at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.
He was director of the Institute of Research on Tourism Management at La Rochelle Business School (France) (2014-2018) and was director of the Regional Institute for Economic Planning of Tuscany (IRPET) (2009-2011). From 2012 to 2016, he also worked as an expert for the European Commission (DG REGIO) for the analysis of regional innovation strategies.
He teaches tourism economics at the LUISS Business School (Rome) and cultural heritage marketing for the Master’s Course in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the IULM (Milan). Among his publications: Tourism in the City. Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism (editor with C. Pasquinelli), Berlin: Springer, 2017; Gastronomy and Local Development. Quality of products, quality of places, quality of experiences (editor with C. Clergeau and O. Etcheverria), London: Routledge, 2019.
