Dorina Camelia ILIES (PhD) is a Prof. habil. at the Department of Geography, Tourism and TerritorialPlanning at the University of Oradea in Romania. She has over 30 years of experience in didactic andresearch activities. Her actual field of interest is in the investigation and mapping of natural and culturalheritage and better valorization for tourism in times of climate change. Her research activity has culminatedto over 150 scientific papers published in leading national and international scientific journals. She hascoordinated several national and international research projects in the domain of geography and tourism.She is also a Collaborator to the Crisana Maramures, a geographical atlas of Tourism Heritage (2014)initiative, which won the Romanian Academy Award ` "Simion Mehedinti`" in 2016;  Geography of Tourism ofRomania, in Volume: The Geography of Tourism of Central and Eastern Europe Countries (2016) and TheAtlas of the local horizon of Bihor County in 2020. She is currently the Coordinator for Romania of theInternational Association for the Promotion of Geoethics.