Lluís Alfons Garay Tamajón

Catedràtic Economics and Business Studies Department

Expert in::

  • Tourism
  • Sustanaible tourism
  • Tourism and ICT
  • Society and territory
  • Social responsibility
  • Responsible production and consumption
Research group
NOUTUR
Area
Social sciences
Area of specialization
Network society, City and Community, Knowledge governance, Collaborative economy,
Membership Center
Faculties
UNESCO codes:
531290, 5401, 530803, 5308, 550606, 5306

ODS:

  • 12 - Responsible production and consumption
  • 11 - Sustainable cities and communities
  • 8 - Decent work and economic growth
  • 5 - Gender equality

The R&I activity of the researcher Lluís Garay focuses on the analysis of the transformation of the tourism sector. This activity was initiated from the preparation of his doctoral thesis, related to the historical-economic study of tourism development in Catalonia and continued with the observation of the transformation of different tourism products or typologies, such as rural tourism or cruise tourism. Today it focuses on the following areas: 

1) Analysis of the development of the tourism platform economy in different territorial contexts 

2) Study of the processes of creation and projection of the image of tourist destinations

3) Analysis of social responsibility and environmental, social and economic justice in the context of leisure and tourism

 

Accredited in advanced research by Agència de Qualitat Universitària (AQU)