Julia-Eva Beelitz

Academic development

• Graduate in Business Administration (FH); ISM, Dortmund, Germany, and NMIT, Nelson, New Zealand
• MA in ‘Tourism and Urban Culture’; University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
• PhD in Tourism Geography; University of Trier, Germany

Professional experience (excerpt)

• Various positions in academic teaching and research since 2007 (including a 10-year professorship in ‘Sustainability and International Management’ at Kempten University of Applied Sciences)
• Worked as a freelance consultant/in-house consultant since 2009 (including 3 years at TUI InfoTec GmbH)
• Product manager at a coach tour operator
   

• Tourism and sustainability (in particular sustainable marketing, sustainable mass tourism)
• Tourism as a system (including business models, impact assessment)
• International and Intercultural Management
• Special Interest Tourism (including Culinary Tourism)
• Tourism philosophy
• Market and opinion research

• Regular participant at academic conferences; keynote speaker at events in the tourism sector; guest on media programmes
• Editor of academic publications (e.g. Beelitz, J.E. & Pfister, J. (2023): Tourism Philosophy. UVK) and journals (ZfTW)
• Active member of tourism research associations (e.g. DGT and AKTF) and industry associations (e.g. DRV)
• Reviewer and jury member (e.g. EcoTrophea)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of Futouris and Forum Anders Reisen