Antonio Santos del Vall,  President of the  Tourism and Society Think Tank, has been working in the field of culture, education and tourism for more than 30 years, beginning in 1992 with his contribution to the development, management and promotion of Expo’92, and the opening and closing events. Closing of the Barcelona Olympic Games (1992). From 1994 to 1996 he was an advisor to Minister Carmen Alborch Bataller for cultural issues, heritage and cultural tourism, and began his professional activity in the ‘Ibero-American Cooperation Platform’, mainly in Latin American countries and in some European and Arab countries.

From 2010 to 2022 he has been a Member of the Board of the Affiliate Members Program of the World Tourism Organization, and of the UNWTO Expert Panel, and since 2016 he has been director of the Global Shopping Tourism Network and has collaborated in the development of proposals such as the program called “tourist passport, or in the development of a proposal that allows the total digitalization of the tourism industry, without forgetting its great knowledge of everything that is related to cultural identity and its relationship with tourism and social development.