Introduction
In the new issue of the scientific journal “Current Issues of Tourism Research” we present article of Joana Maria Segui Pons and Maria Rosa Martinez Reynés - New Mobilities and Old Problems. Tourist Flows and Low-Cost Airlines in the Balearic Islands and Spain.In other articles is paper of Kristína Pompurová and Petra Strnádová which deals with Organized Events: an Opportunity for Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises.Paper of Patrik Kajzar and Klára Václavínková is devoted to culinary tourism and regional cuisine in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Review of Miroslava Sumková summary of knowledge of international Medical Tourism, which took place in St. Petersburg at the end 2013. We will use editorial in the future to introduce more personalities that are leaders of the editorial board of this journal. We selected the first with a view to the current study in the journal of the Balearics University professor Joana Maria Segui Pons.
Joana Maria Seguí Pons is PhD in Geography since 1987 and Full Professor of Human Geography at Department of Earth Sciences, University of the Balearic Islands since 2001. She stayed as visiting professor of the Department of Geography at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) (Canada) during the academic year 2005-2006. He has a Director of Hospitality School at the University of the Balearic Islands (1999-2003). Her lines of research have been mainly focused on Transportation systems, Transport and Tourism and Information and Territory Networks. She leads a Research Group of the UIB: Tourism, Mobility and Territory (GITMOT). She is a researcher of several research projects, among which stands out the European Civitas “DYNamic citizens & active for sustainable MObility” (2012-2016); At Spanish level (Ministry of Technology and Science): “The territorial, social and environmental perspective in researches about mobility and transport. An analysis from geography”, (2010-2013), “Analysis about mobility, transport and territory. Informative tools for a methodological and conceptual renewal within the new paradigm of sustainability”,(2009-2010) and “AeroSIG” (Ministry of Public Works), 2003. “Transports, tourisme et articulation territoriale: la diversification et la monoculture à Québec (Canada) et aux Îles Baléares (Espagne)” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Ottawa), 2005-2006, among others at regional and local level. She is as well member of the Committee of Experts of the Green Book of the Information Society(2002), Balearic Government. She has coauthored and/or co-edited twelve books, as “Geografía de los Transportes” published in 2004,” Prácticas de Análisis Espacial” (1995), “Geografía de Redes y Sistemas de Transporte” (1991), and “Geografía Humana de las Islas Baleares”(1989). She is also author or co-author of a set of forty chapters or parts of books, both national and international, in works as: Circulaçao, transportes e logística. Diferentes perspectivas (2011); Le monde dans tous ses états: une approche géographique(2011); Areas empresariales, suelo industrial y logística: análisis y procesos en el territorio(2011); Regional Policies in Europe 1999. New Challenges, New Opportunities(2000); 100 años del automóvil en las Baleares (1997); Developments in telecommunications: Between Global and Local (1997); Cambio industrial y desarrollo regional en España (1995); Cognitive aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems (1995).
In the same way, she has co-authored seven CD-Rom, among which stands out: Engaging in a dynamic dialogue for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) (2013); Atles de les Illes Balears. CDROM (1998) of which she was the director and Los servicios, los transportes y las redes territoriales (2003). She has authored or co-authored more than seventy articles in international, national and local magazines as: Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, Scripta Nova, Organisations et Territoires, Networks and Communications Studies, Geofocus, Insula. International Journal of Island Affairs, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Cahiers de Géographie de l’Université du Quebec, among others. She has presented more than 80 papers under the form of talks or presentations in national and international conferences and congress through her academic and research career and almost all of them have been published.
We believe that the journal will be, thanks to personalities continue to attract for readers, authors - contributors.
Peter Čuka
Editor in Chief
