Georgios Papageorgiou

BA Tourism Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Athens; MSc and PhD Tourism Policy and Management, University of Birmingham

Dr Papageorgiou lectures in the areas of tourism and hospitality management. He headed the department of Tourism, Hospitality and Sport for 8 years, and subsequently served as Director of the International Honors Program for a further 3 years. Before joining Deree, Dr Papageorgiou was a Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Surrey and the Academic Dean of Alpine Center in Greece. He studied Tourism Business Administration at the TEI of Athens, and received his Master’s and PhD in Tourism Policy and Management from the University of Birmingham. He also holds postgraduate and professional qualifications in Academic Practice (University of Surrey), Critical Thinking and Critical Reading (Universidad del Sagrado Coraçon, Puerto Rico), Digital Marketing (Alba Graduate Business School), and Transformative Coaching (Animas Centre for Coaching, UK). He has published in refereed journals and books, and co-edited ‘Lifelong Learning for Tourism’, published by Routledge. His experience focuses on tourism policy and academic quality assurance in the tourism sector.

Selected Publications

Cuffy, VV, Airey, D, and Papageorgiou, GC (eds.)(2017) Lifelong learning for tourism: concepts, policy and implementation. Oxon: Routledge

Papageorgiou, GC (2017) Quality versus standards: challenges in quality assurance in tourism education. In Benckendorff, P., & Zehrer, A. (eds.) International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., pp.537-548

Papageorgiou, GC (2015) Heritage in consumer marketing. In Watson, S & Waterton, E (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.478-491

Papageorgiou, GC (2008) The human dimension of tourism: supply-side perspectives. Annals of Tourism Research Vol.35(1), pp.211-232