About me

I’m professor of tourism at West Coast University of Applied Sciences in Heide, Germany. I’m interested in the nexus between sustainable tourism, regional development and biodiversity conservation, and I have worked on these topics in academic teaching, research and consulting in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caucasus. 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Julius Arnegger, Dipl.-Wirtsch.Geogr.

Born in 1980 in Freiburg, Germany

 

 

Current Position

Professor

International Tourism Management

West Coast University of Applied Sciences

Heide, Germany

 

Previous positions

2015-2020

Consultant

Natural Resources Management & Environment

GFA Consulting Group GmbH

Hamburg, Germany

 

2012-2015

Principal Advisor

(Integrated Expert, German International Cooperation GIZ-CIM)

Research and Development Department

Azerbaijan Tourism and Management University, Baku

Azerbaijan

 

2008-2011

Researcher, lecturer

Institute of Geography

JMU Würzburg, Germany

 

2007-2008

Researcher

Institute of Economic Geography

LMU Munich

 

 

I'm interested in the following topics in consulting and research:

Tourism, especially ecotourism

Protected area management and sustainable use of natural resources

Sustainable Development

Regional Economics

Image and marketing of destinations

 

Member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN WCPA)

Member of the Sector Dialogue Tourism for Sustainable Development

 

 

Education

PhD project "Protected Areas, the Tourist Bubble and Regional Economic Development. Two Case Studies from Mexico and Morocco."

Advisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hubert Job, JMU Würzburg

Doctor's degree received Feb 2014

 

2001-2007

Studies in Economic Geography at LMU Munich and UAM Madrid

2007 LMU Munich: Diplom (equ. to MSc.) in Economic Geography

 

 

 


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