Mercedes Fernández-Paradas is a doctor and head professor of contemporary history at the University of Malaga. She specialises in economic history and public services, especially business history, gas and electricity. She is a principal researcher of the Research and Innovation Project of Excellence of the Government of Spain ?La industria del gas en España: desarrollo y trayectorias regionales (1842?2008)?. She has carried out several research stays, including at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has won several awards, including the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Philosophy and Arts for the History Department of the University of Malaga. Carlos Larrinaga is a senior lecturer of economic history at the University of Granada (Andalusia, Spain). His research is on the history of tourism, railways in the nineteenth century and the service sector. He is currently leading an interdisciplinary project on the history of tourism in Spain and Italy in the twentieth century, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European FEDER funds. He has undertaken research in several stays at Bordeaux University and at Aberystwyth University.