Noel B. Salazar received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He is currently a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and visit- ing professor at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His fields of research include the anthro- pology of mobility and travel, the nexus between the local and the global, discourses and imaginaries about otherness, heritage, cultural intermediation and cosmopolitanism. He is the author of Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond (2010) and Momentous Mobilities: Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel (2018). In addition, he is co-editor of Tourism Imaginaries (2014), Regimes of Mobility (2014), Key- words of Mobility (2016) and Methodologies of Mobility (2017). Dr. Salazar belongs to the editorial board of American Anthropologist, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sus- tainable Tourism, International Journal of Tourism Anthropology and Transfers, among others. In addition, he is included in the official list of Unesco and UNWTO consultants and is a member of Icomos-International Cultural Tourism Committee, and Unesco-Unitwin Network “Culture, Tourism and Development”. He has been president of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) and is currently vice president of IUAES (Internation- al Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences). Dr. Salazar is also founder of Cu- MoRe (Cultural Mobilities Research) and EASA’s Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob).