Ph.D. Espeso-Molinero has worked in various aspects of the tourism industry from hotel operations to strategic consulting. Among the entities with which she has collaborated are the United States National Park Service, the New York Museum of Natural History, Tourspain, Disney Corp. and the Hilton hotel chain. Her professional and academic experience focuses on the study of tourism as a development tool with projects in the field of cultural and heritage tourism, community tourism, ecotourism, indigenous tourism, and decolonial perspectives on tourism. Her extensive international experience and knowledge of five languages has led her to develop her professional activity in numerous countries with tourism planning and development projects in Cambodia, Laos, China, Bolivia, Romania, Mexico, and the United States, among others.