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Almería, Al, Es

Europe

Federation of 34 professional rural tourism organisations in 27 European countries, representing a sector with more than 400.000 SSMEs in rural, countryside, or farm tourism and related activities.

Almeria

Umbrella consultancy configuring expert teams for projects and advisory services in applied rural development, rural tourism, and sustainable local development based on private initiative. Special focus is on actions that work and are sustainable in their socio-economic environment under open market and free competition. Projects preferrably include an implementation and monitoring period. Project teams are configured amongst external experts / freelancers depending on the topic and required practical experience in it.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Stakeholder cooperation for exchange and identification of best practices and to contribute to the development of recommendations to improve the transparency, comparability and consistency of online consumer review and rating schemes available across websites. ​Facilitate cooperation between different stakeholders with a view to consolidate a common understanding of the issues identified in the study​Aiming to continue the collaboration beyond the study.​

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Bergamo Area, Italy

STRD2017 was a first-ever event that brought together stakeholders from two of the most relevant sectors of the European economy - agriculture and tourism - to set common ground for future cooperation and synergies. Organized in the context of the UNWTO “2017 Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development” and the implementation of the Cork 2.0 Declaration. A second edition STRD2019 took place two years later, building on discussions and results from the even in 2017. Website www.strd2019.org with link to the 2017 edition.Rural Tourism is already an important part of the European tourism sector. But many assets and resources for recreation in rural areas are yet not used, or even remain undetected. This conference was a step to broaden the view and unleash the full rural potential for leisure through a holistic approach that includes hospitality, food, gastronomy, culture, active tourism, and any other relevant aspects. The conference was organised around four topics: * Vitality* Value chains* Rural Experience* Digitalization. Each was discussed in a moderated panel, followed by best-practice cases from Europe and Italy. Further 40-50 examples were presented in a Marketplace of Ideas in the foyer, where participants voted for the three most inspiring cases.The organisation of the conference was shared between EuroGites-European Federation of Rural Tourism and MER - Mouvement Européen de Ruralité. It counted with cooperation of UNWTO, ENRD, COPA-COGECA, EDEN Network, Regione Lombardia, and Ente Fiera Promoberg. It took place in the Exhibition Center of Bergamo during the international fair on rural tourism and Agri Travel & Slow Travel Expo 2017 where the participants had the opportunity to show their ideas, professional exchange (seminars, workshops, etc.) and business contacts B2B and B2C.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Board of experts on low and medium season tourism, communication and promotion. Selected by the Tourism Unit of the European Commission to support policy definition and implementation in this field. Activity of this group ended in October 2016 after a wrap-up seminar in September.

Andalusia

Management of AHRA - Asociation of Rural Hotels in Andalusia. The oldest organisation of this sector in Spain (founded 1993). Priority task is the strategy and adaptation of activities and structure to the new digital and commercial environment. Due to diverging opinions about the actions to be implemented, the agreement was finished by mutual agreement after four months.

Brussels - European Commission

Member during three terms of the TSG-Tourism Sustainability Group preparing several COMs related with tourism in the EU, and preparation of the European Tourism Policy documents

Regional entrepreneur association for rural tourism in Andalusia

Diplom-Kaufmann, Economics - Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Student representation (AStA, Fachschaft) University sportsMember of student representation at faculty.

Economics

Self-organised one year at foreign university (what nowadays would be "Erasmus")

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