Lucia Tomassini, PhD is a Research Lecturer in Sustainability in Hospitality and Tourism at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Groningen, Campus Fryslan, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. At NHL Stenden, she is responsible fror the project and research line of Circular Economy in Hospitality and Tourism. Her academic research embraces studies on the relationship between the tourism and development agenda, urban planning, social-geography, sustainability and circular economy, animal-based tourism, wildlife tourism, and posthuman approaches in tourism studies.