UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA (ULPGC)
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Department carrying out activities: institute of tourism and sustainable economic development (TIDES)
The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) is located on the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), Spain. It was set up in May 1989 by the University Reorganization Law passed by the Canary Islands’ Parliament, which united the Canary Islands Polytechnic University (initially, in 1979, the Polytechnic University of Las Palmas), and other university centres on Gran Canaria, some of which dated back to the 19th century. Therefore, an institution brings together a modern approach and many decades of experience. The ULPGC is recognized as a Campus of International Excellence, and a leading university in e-learning from the Ministry of Education of the Spain´s government. It is worth noting the achievement of five UNESCO Chairs at the ULPGC. Actually, with its 161 research groups and its 9 University Institutes, the ULPGC leads 286 research and innovation projects. TIDES is a research institute whose objectives are to research tourism of excellence, generating and disseminating scientific knowledge and participating in the international networks of tourism of excellence. The institute also provides education, training and awareness to improve tourism development. Finally, it applies the generated knowledge to impulse the improvement of economic, social and environmental tourism in diverse destinations. TIDES, as an institute responsible for tourism research at the ULPGC, has made this University reach the fourth place as a centre of research in scientific productivity in tourism of Europe. It holds the second place worldwide in scientific productivity on marketing and destination management, together with other institutions. It has the fourth place worldwide in scientific productivity on image and brand research. It also holds the first place in Latin America in scientific productivity in hospitality.
RESEARCHERS CARRYING OUT ACTIVITIES
Name: Carmelo Javier León González
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Dr. Carmelo J. León González is a PhD in Economics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and Bachelor of Economics from the University of La Laguna, Tenerife. He is also Master in Economics and Diploma in Economics from the University of Manchester. He teaches at the Department of Economic Analysis since 1989. He is Director of the Research Group Ecomas (Economy, Environment, Sustainability and Tourism), Director of the Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (Tides) and the UNESCO Chair in Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development ULPGC. From 2001 to 2008 has been Director of the Doctoral Program in Economics Department of Applied Economic Analysis in the ULPGC. He has been the principal investigator of several national and international projects related to Economics, Environment and Tourism. He is specialized in environmental economics, the valuation of environmental goods, the economics of tourism, economy aquaculture and natural resources. He has spoken at numerous conferences nationally and internationally and has written more than 70 scholarly articles, books and book ́s chapters. Heading up TIDES his mission is to bring the fledgling center into the top ten tourism institutes in the world via a multitude of interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Name: Marcelo Mautone
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Name: Laura Gaspar
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Laura Gaspar is the Community Manager of SOCLIMPACT by the University Institute TIDES of ULPGC. She has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She is specialized in the Marketing field and has several years of experience in digital and corporate communication, development of social media strategies, content creation, data analytic and execution of marketing campaigns.
Name: Yen Elízabeth Lam González
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During the last five years, she has been author of 15 publications (books, chapters and articles), and speaker in more than 20 international congresses and seminars. She has also been peer reviewer in five journals, and coordinator of more than 10 scientific events and publications. She has participated in 12 RDI European Projects, under Horizon 2020, Interreg and Erasmus Funding Programmes. She has participated in the Integral Tourism Development Strategy of the Old Havana, world heritage site, and in capacity building and other cooperation initiatives for the United Nations (UNESCO, UNDP), World Bank and COSUDE. She is also external expert for project evaluation for the European Commission. Her main areas of research interest are Tourism, Climate Change, Sustainability, Coastal and Maritime Tourism, Destination Marketing and Small Islands States.
Name: Casiano Manrique
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Casiano Manrique has a PhD in Economics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he also has a Master in Economic Policy (specialization in International Economics and Project Evaluation) from the University of Boston and has a degree in High European Studies from the European School (Bruges). He is General Administrator and Technical economist of the Canarian Government on leave of absence, he was head of the international area in La Caja de Canarias and did a stage at the European Commission. He teaches at the Department of Applied Economic Analysis of the University of Las Palmas de GC and has been the author of scientific publications related to tourism, multisectoral accounts and models, and international maritime trade.
Name: Carmen García Galindo
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Name: Matias Manuel gonzález hernández
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Dr. González is PhD in Economics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and Bachelor of Economics from the University of La Laguna, Tenerife. He teaches at the Department of Economic Analysis. He is Managing Director at the UNESCO Chair in Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development ULPGC. He has been the principal investigator of several national and international projects related to Environment and Tourism. He is specialized in environmental economics, sustainable tourism, international cooperation and the economics of tourism.
Name: Gonzalo Díaz-Meneses
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Name: JORGE ARAÑA
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Name: Sergio Moreno Gil
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Name: Javier de León González
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Javier de León Ledesma is lecturer at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. His research interests centre on tourism, sustainable development, financial information in federal and local government, financial and budgetary management and the economics of the public sector. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals, both national and international. He has also authored various books and book chapters on these subjects. He is Secretary of the Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (Tides) and of the UNESCO Chair in Tourist Planning and Sustainable Development at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
