Renata Tomljenovic is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Tourism, Croatia. Her research interests, apart from human resources for tourism, include tourism role in fostering social transformation, peace tourism, cultural tourism, socio-cultural impacts of tourism and tourism planning. She is advising national and regional policy makers on issues of strategic importance for tourism development, acts as an Associate Editor of the Tourism: An international interdisciplinary journal, leads research and consultancy projects and publishes widely for both, academic and professional journals. She also serves on a number of Editorial Boards and has published over 30 research papers. renata.tomljenovic@iztzg.hr