Despina Gavrili

BSc, Marketing Management, Deree – The American College of Greece; BSc, Management of Businesses and Organizations, Hellenic Open University; MSc, Tourism Marketing, University of Surrey; MEd, Hellenic Open University.

Despina Gavrili-Alexandris has been a member of the faculty since 2005. She has taught in the areas of Marketing and Tourism and Hospitality Management. She currently teaches in the areas of Tourism Planning and Development, Hospitality and F&B Operations, and Cultural Tourism. Her research interests lie in the areas of cultural tourism and experiential learning, with recent publications in both areas. She serves as the Coordinator for the International Tourism and Hospitality Management Program and the Internship Coordinator for the School of Business and Economics, overseeing internships taken for academic credit. She has a long working experience in various managerial positions in the Wine, Tourism and Hospitality industry. She has been a member of the Association of Greek Women in Tourism, whose efforts contributed to the establishment of the Museum of Tourism.

Selected Publications

• Gavrili-Alexandris, D. (2024). The Impacts of Study Abroad Students in the City of Aghia Paraskevi: An Exploratory Paper. In IACuDiT 11th International Conference, Naxos Island, Greece (paper under publication).
• Gavrili-Alexandris, D. & Kedraka, K. (2023). Learning and Change under the Prism of Internship Placement, conference proceedings. EEEE¹ 8^th annual conference, pp. 246-251.
• Gavrili-Alexandris, D. (2022). Heritage Tourism. In D. Buhalis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing (pp 519–521). Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• Gavrili-Alexandris, D. (2017). Millennials in Crisis. In V.V. Cuffy, D. Airey, G.C. Papageorgiou (Eds). Lifelong Learning: Concepts, Policy and Implementation (71-87), Oxon: Routledge.
• Gavrili-Alexandris, D. & Vakalakis, Ph. (2015). Running on heritage: a conceptual discussion on the roles of heritage trails and of augmented reality on amateur runner athletes. In V. Katsoni, A. Stratigea (Eds). Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation (589-603), Heidelberg: Springer.