Prof. PhD Lyubomir Antonov Dinev is among the distinguished Bulgarian geographers. He is interested in this science since from his early childhood. This is due to his father Anton Dinev - Kartografov, a teacher of geography, who created the first study maps in geography, as well as the first methodological foundations of teaching in this subject. Lyubomir Dinev graduated with a degree in geography from Sofia University in 1935. After he completed a specialization in Prague. After his return to Bulgaria he entered Sofia University as an assistant in geography. Later, he reoriented himself to socio-economic geography, and in particular to the area of geography of population and settlements. Gradually he is habilitated for associate professor and professor. In addition to what he has achieved in his research work, Prof. L. Dinev stays in science by expanding the research field of geography in Bulgaria through the specialty “geography of tourism”, created by him, and the Department of the same name in the “Kl. Ohridski ”Sofia University.

Professor Lyubomir Dinev, economic and social geography, geography of tourism