Oriol Miralbell has been involved in tourism for a long time, working in the industry and also in the government. He has been coordinator of the network of tourism boards of Catalonia from 1989 until 2005. During the same period hi was in charge for the tourism information services and the e-tourism projects of the Catalan government, designing also and managing the official tourist information portal of Catalonia.Oriol has participated in several European, aswell as Spanish e-tourism projects, like TIM (Tourism Information and Marketing) or TURINTER. He has been teaching since 1999 at the EUTDH at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and has teached also in several Master Programs at CETT at the Universitat de Barcelona, EUTDH and European University of Barcelona. He is professor and researcher at the CETT - University Campus of Tourism, Hospitality and Food Services of the University of Barcelona.Between 2005 and 2015 he was lecturer and researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in tne Tourism Program teaching Tourist Destinations, ITC & Tourism, Ecotourism, Service Management, Tourist Destination Management. He is a researcher at the GRATET group at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and at the New Tourism Lab of the Open University of Catalonia. He has finished his PhD Thesis on Knowledge exchange in online social networks. He is doing research also in tourism events and local development and on ICT in tourism destinations.Specialties: E-tourism, tourism destination management, knowledge management, networking,