Claudio Milano

Claudio Milano, a social anthropologist with a background in economics, is a Ramon y Cajal fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. He is a member of the Research Group on Anthropology of Crisis and Contemporary Transformations (CRITS) at the University of Barcelona, and co-chair of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism. His main area of research is the political economy of tourism, where he explores the dynamics of processes of touristification and examines urban tourism policies. Together with Joseph M. Cheer and Marina Novelli, he coordinated the editing of the publication Overtourism: Excesses, Discontents and Measures in Travel and Tourism (CABI, 2019), which presents cases of social problems resulting from urban tourism in order to open up critical debate in the field of urban and tourism studies. Moreover, as a board member of the Smart Tourism Capital Award, and of the International Advisory Board of the Rotterdam Way for Drafting a Strategic Tourism Plan, he has advised the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) of the European Parliament on European tourism policies.