**Meet the editor**

Leszek Butowski is a professor of tourism and geography. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Warsaw and a habilitation degree from the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska. He also finished postgraduate study on International Tourism at the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. Professor L. Butowski has cooperated with many Polish and European institutions

on different issues connected with tourism development. He teaches at the undergraduate, graduate and doctorate levels, focusing on various aspects concerning sustainable tourism, nautical tourism as well as methodological foundations of tourism research. Leszek Butowski has given lectures at universities in Poland, Turkey and Cyprus.
