Álvaro López-López, PhD

Álvaro López-López has a PhD in Geography from Arts Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Geography, UNAM, and also a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Geography at UNAM where he teaches "Space and Tourism." His basic line of research has been the "geography of tourism in Mexico," from which he has developed research projects about "sex tourism," "dark tourism," and the "intersection between the geography of tourism and the geography of animals" among others. He was the president of the Mexican Academy of Tourism Research.