Dr. Maria Trinitat Rovira-Soto, known as Trini, is a postdoctoral researcher at Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, in the Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies (GRATET).
After graduating with a major in Geography and earning a Master’s Degree in Planning and Management of Tourism from Rovira i Virgili University, was awarded a research grant from the Government of Catalonia to develop a PhD thesis on the identification of urban landscape patterns in mass tourism destinations on the Mediterranean Coast.

As a postdoc researcher, she is currently analysing models of spatial development of tourist destinations from an evolutionary perspective. She has also participated in other projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government with the purpose of studying models of territorial development fostered by the tourism industry in the Mediterranean Coastal region from the perspective of innovation and territorial competitiveness and to analyse territorial innovation processes in tourist-destination spaces, the capacity of tourism to generate competitive territories, the transformation of regional systems, and the evolution of urban structures and regional integration of destinations on an intermediate scale. Her research uses GIS software as the basic instrument for collecting data, analysing patterns and demonstrating results.
 

Trini also has many years of teaching experience at Rovira i Virgili University, specifically in the degree for Geography and Spatial Planning (Tourism and Geography Faculty).