Harald Pechlaner is Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research, Chair of Tourism and founding Dean of the School of Transformation and Sustainability at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. His research area covers sustainable destination development and selected questions about global governance combined with economics and politics. Since 2014 he has been Adjunct Research Professor at Curtin University (Perth, Australia) and President of AIEST (Association Internationale d’Experts Scientifiques du Tourisme), the oldest tourism experts’ association, based in the St. Gallen University. Elisa Innerhofer was a Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She studied international economics, business science, and political science at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the Marquette University in Milwaukee (WI, USA) and holds a PhD in economics from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany. Julian Philipp is a consultant for regional development at Schnürer & Company and PhD student at the Chair of Tourism / Center for Entrepreneurship, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany. His dissertation focuses on the role of local and regional identity in the governance of spatial and regional development. He completed his B.Sc. at University of Wuppertal, Germany, and his M.Sc. at Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. His main fields of interest encompass regional development, regional ecosystems, sustainable destination development, overtourism, and entrepreneurship.