Noel Salazar

Noel B. Salazar is professor in social and cultural anthropology, steering committee member of the KU Leuven Institute for Cultural Heritage (HERKUL), and founder of the Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe) cluster at KU Leuven, Belgium. He co-teaches the course Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development and represents KU Leuven on the Una Europa Cultural Heritage self-steering committee. Salazar has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on heritage and tourism in Indonesia, Tanzania and Chile. He is currently co-leading an interdisciplinary and intersectoral research project on the revalorization of traditional crafts in Belgium. 
Salazar is editor of the Berghahn Worlds in Motion book series, co-editor of eight edited volumes and ten special issues, and author of Momentous Mobilities (2018), Envisioning Eden (2010) and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the relation between heritage, tourism and other mobilities (including a theme issue in the International Journal of Heritage Studies and participation in the UNWTO Study on Tourism and Intangible Cultural Heritage). He is on UNESCO’s and UNWTO’s official roster of consultants and an expert member of the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee and the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network ‘Culture, Tourism and Development’. Salazar is also a former governing board member and current member of the general assembly of the non-profit organisation Intangible Heritage Workshop.