Professor Eduardo Parra of the University of La Laguna (ULL) has been appointed co-editor of one of the most prestigious tourism journals.

Eduardo Parra, a tenured professor in the Department of Business and Economic History who specializes in research on the tourism sector, has recently been appointed co-editor of the journal Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, Published by Elsevier, it is one of the leading tourism publications. The professor from the Tenerife institution will share editorial responsibilities with Xinran Lehto, from Purdue University in West Lafayette (Indiana, USA), and Youcheng Wang, from the University of Central Florida.

The Journal of Destination Marketing and Management has become a leading international journal in the study of tourist destinations, providing a critical understanding of all aspects of their marketing and management, as situated within their policy, planning, economic, geographical and historical contexts.

It is a publication that ranks in the first quartile in the fields of "Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism" and "Management" that seeks to develop a solid theoretical understanding of destination marketing and management by leveraging knowledge drawn from the full breadth of disciplinary approaches to the study of destinations.

Eduardo Parra López is a professor of Business Organization, Digital Economy, and Tourism at the University of La Laguna. He has been a visiting professor at the University of the Valley (Guatemala) and a guest editor at the Special Administrative Sciences, guest editor at the Special Sustainability Edition, attached to the address of the PASOS Magazine and deputy editor of Destination Marketing Management Journal, among other national and international publications. He is also the director of the Chair of Sustainable Territories, Socioeconomic Development and Tourism, created in October 2022.