Anestis Fotiadis

Biography

Dr. Anestis K. Fotiadis lived and worked for several years in Katerini, Pieria, Greece where he has completed his basic studies. He studied Business Management and Administration at the Moscow Commercial University, of the Russian Federation. After the completion of his military service, he continued his studies in the T.E.I. of Piraeus, specialized in “Informatics and Administration”. In 2004 he received a scholarship by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and conducted a research on the subject: “Tourism Development in Hungary” in collaboration with Szecheny Istvan University, Gyor Hungary. Since September, 2004 he had already started his Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Economics, in the University of Pecs, Hungary and on October, 2009 he received his Master’s Degree on “Tourism Business Administration” of the School of Social Studies of the Greek Open University. He finishes his Post – Doc in Hungary in cooperation with Kodolanyi Janos University with the theme “Factors for Success on Rural Tourism Development in Greece”. He is a certified trainer for the National Accreditation Centre for Continuing Vocational Training (EKEPIS) and he has been teaching in seminars by the National School of Public Health, the Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Handicraft (EOMMEX), the Manpower Employment Organization and Adult Education Centre. He was working for several years in Taiwan for I-Shou University where he received the best teacher and best mentor award for year 2014. He has published more than 40 research papers in top tier international academic journals such as “Tourism Management Journal”, “Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change”, “Computers in Human Behavior” and “Journal of Business Research”. Furthermore, he participated in more than thirty international conferences and he published several books and book chapters.

Research Interest

Dr. Anestis K. Fotiadis research focus is in small scale events management, theme park management, rural tourism and sustainable development.