Raúl Hernández-Martín is a Full Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods at the University of La Laguna. He earned his PhD in Economics from the same institution in 1994 with a thesis on the international specialization of small island states. Throughout his career, he has held various academic leadership positions, including Director of the PhD program in Tourism and the Master's Degree in Tourism Management and Planning. He currently serves as the Director of the Chair in Tourism at the University of La Laguna. His research focuses on the economic impacts of tourism, tourism satellite accounts, measuring tourism sustainability at the local scale, and island tourism development. His work has been published in leading journals such as Tourism Management, Tourism Economics, Current Issues in Tourism, and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. He has made significant contributions to the field of sustainable tourism measurement and has been a member of the United Nations Tourism Working Group of Experts on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism for the past seven years.