Tourism planning. Tourism planning tools and their link to sustainable management: diagnosis, methodologies, tourism planning adequacy to global approaches on development, connection to other public planning policies, efficiency of strategic objectives, outcome evaluation.

Governance. Structure, measurement and analysis of governance in tourism destinations’ performance: the aim of this line of research is to study public-private partnership frameworks, collaborative systems of participation in decision-making, relationships between stakeholders, transparency in information access and accountability.

Smart tourism destinations. Revision and proposal of methodologies focussed on smart management, studies on decision-making processes for smart destinations, enforcement of big data on destinations’ management, evaluation of the destination’s smart performance.