Maria AlvarezMaria D. Alvarez is an Associate Professor of Tourism Marketing at the Department of Tourism Administration of Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is also currently the director of the Bogaziçi University Tourism Administration and Reearch Centre, and has participated in several destination development and research projects in Turkey, financed by organizations such as UNWTO, UNDP, Thrace Regional Development Agency, etc. Dr. Alvarez also serves in the editorial board of six academic journals and has co-edited a book on tourism as an instrument for development (forthcoming in Elsevier). She has published in leading academic tourism journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism, International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, Pasos: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage and Tourism Review. Her current research interests include tourist behavior, destination marketing and e-marketing. Read More Read Less