Marco Platania is a lecturer in applied economics at the University of Catania (Italy) and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Winchester (UK). His research interests are tourism economics and applied economics. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at the University of Catania. He is a reviewer for different journals, including Italian Journal of Applied Statistics; British Journal of Economics, Current Issue in Tourism; Sustainability; Urban Science, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; and Environmental Science and Pollution Research. He is a member of AISRe, Ersa, and Sistur.