Academia staff

Steffen Fokkema

University: Stenden University

Name: Steffen Fokkema 

Titles: M.A., M.Sc. 

Date / City of Birth: July 16^th, 1984, Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) 

Nationality: Dutch 

Sex: Male 
 

EDUCATION 

High School: Preparatory Scientific Education. Graduation date: June 20^th, 2002.

Profile: Economy and society. 

University:BSc Business Administration, University of Groningen. 2002 - 2005. 

MSc. International Business & Management, University of Groningen. 2005 - 2006. Taught entirely in English. Graduation date: October 31^st, 2006.

Including master’s thesis¹, written on behalf of Heineken International:

  ‘Beer brands’ freelance? An investigation of the influence a Turkish EU accession has on the external environment of the Turkish beer market’ 

Msc. (Master-after-master) International Relations and Diplomacy, University of Antwerp. 2007 – 2008. Graduation date: September 12^th, 2008.

Including master’s thesis²:

‘Aberrigabetasun. The origins of self-rule disparity between the Spanish and French Basque Country’ 

WORKING EXPERIENCE 

• Administrative worker at health insurer ‘De Friesland’ in Leeuwarden (2006).

Account management for private customers.

• Consultant business development, Larsen & Toubro Infotech in Bangalore, India (2006-2007)³. L&T Infotech is one of the top 10 Indian IT enterprises, offering complete software solutions in banking, insurance, production and telecommunication branches.

The job consisted of market research on potential customers in the Western European market. Inter alia this contained sketching the present IT structures, acquiring core information and contacting firms. Moreover the function required organising several business meetings and conferences, translating documents as well as functioning as a contact person for Dutch and Belgian clients, prospects, embassies, trade commissions etc.

• Business market analyst for Reed Elsevier Group in Amsterdam (May 2007 – August 2007)⁴. This is a publisher in the area of professional information, for academic, public and private customers.

Managed large amounts of sales data as a business market analyst. Based on these data customer behaviour was analysed in order to introduce fair pricing models.

• Lecturer Strategic Management for the Leisure Management department of Stenden University in Leeuwarden (October 2008 – present).

In this position, the main responsibility is the coordination and content of Strategic Management courses for Tourism, Leisure and Media / Entertainment Management. Other tasks include lecturing in Business Economics and Marketing-related subjects, as well as guiding students in problem-based learning, entrepreneurship and thesis research. Also working on the proposal of a new bachelor-degree programme in Humanitarian Assistance Management in a project group.

Akke Folmer

University: Stenden University

Name: Akke Folmer

Title: M.Sc

Sex: Female

Current position:

•     Lecturer in Tourism Geography, Stenden university, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
•     Ph.D. student at department of Cultural Geography, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Topic: the role of wildlife in place attachment of tourists in nature areas.

Education:

•     Masters in Human Geography , University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

• Minor in Tourism Development, University of Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
• Minor in Communalism in India, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
• Minor in Geographical Information Systems, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
• Dissertation on Marketing and monitoring tourism destinations.

•     Educational certificate “Pedagogisch Didactisch Getuigschrift”, University of Amsterdam, 2001-2002.
•     Certificate of “Urban and Regional Studies”, Ph.D. course at University of Nijmegen, 2009.

Experience:

•     Student assistant for fieldtrip of Physical Geography, University of Groningen, 1991, 1992, 1993.
•     Researcher at University of Groningen, external research project on a tourism marketing tool for a Dutch council, 1995.

•     Researcher at Vandertuuk, an agency for market research, project supervision and policy and planning on tourism and leisure, the Netherlands, 1995-2000.

•     Lecturer in Tourism Geography, Stenden university, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, 2000-now.
•     Member of the Research Group Service Studies, Stenden University, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, 2008-2009. Supervising and coordinating an audit of the Dutch foundation DHO on the integration of sustainability in Tourism Management. Result recognition of sustainability as special quality mark for the program of Tourism Management ( 2008 to 2012).

Interests:

Experiences of tourists, wildlife tourism, geography of tourism, National Parks, nature areas, rural areas, place attachment, sense of place.

Troanca Dumitru

University: Sibiu, Faculty of Economics »Lucian Blaga«, Romania

Name: Troanca Dumitru

Title: Ph.d

Sex: Male

E-mail: dumitru.troanca@ulbsibiu.ro

Date / City of Birth: May 4^th, 1974

Nationality: Romanian

Sex: Male

PhD. in Economy field, with thesis: “INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS”

Expert Course on School Consultancy, organised by The Nederland School for Educational Management, Bucharest, May 2000 – June 2001.

Expert Course on School Management, organised by The Nederland School for Educational Management, Amsterdam, February – March 1999.

Affiliations:
2000 ATLAS (European Association for Leisure Studies)
2006 IFEA (International Festivals and Events Association)

Irena Weber

University: University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies Portorose - Turistica, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Name: Irena Weber

Titles: Ph.D social sciences

Nationality: Slovene

Sex: Female

Current position: Assist. prof. of cultural anthropology / research fellow


Education:

1999   Ph.D. Social sciences

       University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

1994   MA Sociology

       University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

1994   Non-Degree Research

       University of London, School of Oriental and African    

       Studies. Department of Anthropology.

     

1987   BA University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Sociology,

       Political Science and Journalism.
 
Interests:
Anthropology of tourism; intercultural communication, Film tourism, Meditterranean; Tourism in China and Japan;anthropology of space (landscape); travel literature/ethnography/ fiction; gender studies; anthropology of food (culinary tourism); applied anthropology. 

Živa Čeh

Assistant professor Živa Čeh, PhD, studied English at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She started working as a librarian at Pedagoški inštitut, Pedagogy research institute, in Ljubljana and later taught English at Gimnazija, Grammar school, Koper. After starting to work at UP Turistica, Faculty of tourism studies, Portorož, she did postgraduate studies at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, where she got her master's degree and PhD. Her interest in collocations and word combinations started with the research she carried out for MSc and PhD, where she researched the effect of systematic teaching of collocations on students of English as a foreign language. Her areas of interest include word combinations, teaching English as a foreign language, intercultural competence, English for academic purposes, English as lingua franca, communication and cultural difference. She has actively participated in many conferences and has had her articles published in different monographs, such as Destination Management (Peter Lang), New Directions in LSP Teaching (Peter Lang) in English Studies in Flux (Gunter Narr Verlag).

Tomi Brezovec

Carlos Fernandes

Martin Groters

Mihai Tichindelean

Milka Sinkovič

Helena Santos

Tadeja Jere Lazanski

Tourism Industry

Ksenija Dvorščak

Janez Fajfar

Slavka Gojčič

Janez Pergar

Lea Sevšek