Maria Mansson , PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Strategic communication at Lund University, Sweden. She has a PhD in Service studies from Lund University that focused on Mediatized tourism. Her research interests deals with sustainable tourism development especially in regards to resilience and media influence, place branding and place marketing with a special attention to popular culture from both management and tourist perspectives. A recent publications is The Routledge Companion to media and tourism (Mansson, Buchmann, Cassinger & Eskilsson, Editors, 2020) where Maria has co-written the following chapters: Introduction - In the juncture of media convergence and tourism – towards a research agenda, Tourists' place-making performances through music and Tourist information search in the age of mediatization.