Raquel Huete is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alicante and a researcher at the University Institute for Tourism Research. She holds a Bachelor's degree and a PhD in Sociology, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Tourism. Her professional career combines academic research and teaching with university management, public policy leadership, and experience in the tourism sector.

Before joining academia, she worked in tourism companies, organisations involved in higher education management, and social research consultancies. Within the university, she has held several management positions, including Director of the Rafael Altamira Summer University and Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Alicante, as well as Coordinator of the Master's Programme in Tourism Management and Planning. From 2016 to 2018, she served as Director General of Tourism for the Regional Government of Valencia.

Her research focuses on the sociology of tourism, with particular emphasis on its social implications, migration, power relations, social sustainability, and tourism destination governance. She has participated in numerous competitive national and international research projects, European-funded projects, and knowledge transfer contracts, serving as principal investigator on several of them. She currently leads the Research Group on Sustainable Tourism Planning and Management at the University of Alicante.

She has an extensive academic publication record, including articles in scholarly journals, book chapters, and edited volumes that she has authored or co-edited. She has presented over a hundred papers at national and international conferences and regularly contributes as a speaker to academic and professional events. Her expertise in tourism has led to invitations to contribute as an expert to international organisations and institutions, including the International Social Tourism Organisation (ISTO), the World Tourism Organization, the OECD, and the European Parliament.

She is also actively involved in academic publishing and research evaluation. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals specialising in tourism and sociology and is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Investigaciones Turísticas, published by the University of Alicante.