Jaume Guia holds a PhD in Business Administration (Jaume I University, 2001), and a Bachellor's degree in Economics and Business Administration (University of Valencia, 1991). Currently he is professor of tourism governance and global justice at the Faculty of Tourism at the University of Girona. His initial research centered around the study of inter-organizational relations and networks, and their governance, evolution, change and complexity, in contexts like industrial districts, innovation systems, partnerships, clusters, value chains, community relations, consumer relations, etc. in relation to travel and tourism activities. More recently his research interests has evolved towards the implications of these relational networks for inclusiveness and socio-ecological justice, where the focus is put on problematizing established assjmptions of the dominant research paradigms, in order to explore new conceptualizations of justice, hospitality, cosmopolitanism, ethics, rurality and others, from the ontological lenses of Gilles Deleuze and new materialism.
The results of this research, have been published in prestigious academic journals such as European Urban and Regional Studies, Social Networks, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, Tourism Geographies, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Current Issues in Tourism, European Sport Management Quarerly, Journal of Brand Management, Tourism Review, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and Tourism and Recreation Research. He has also supervised over 20 PhD projects, has led the Erasmus Mundus EU project, European Master in Tourism Mangement (EMTM) since 2007, and has led and participated in numerous research and capacity building projects around the world. He also coordinates a network of academic staff mobility involving 22 universities from 16 countries covering all the continents.