Alexis Papathanassis
Professor for Cruise Tourism Management, the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Since 2005, Professor Alexis Papathanassis has been a Professor for Cruise Management and e-Tourism at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences. Alongside his current Rector mandate, Papathanassis is a Co-Director at the Institute for Maritime Tourism, Chairman of the Cruise Research Society and a member of the German Tourism Research Society. He has published over 120 contributions to textbooks, peer-reviewed scientific journals and conferences. In 2016, his paper “Papathanassis, A. &, Knolle, F. (2011). Exploring the adoption and processing of online holiday reviews: A grounded theory approach. Tourism Management, 32: 215–224” was listed among the most cited articles in Tourism Management. He also received the Emerald Literati Award for his paper: “Papathanassis, A. (2017). Cruise Tourism Management: State of the Art. Tourism Review, 72(1): 104–119”. Papathanassis’s research work has been downloaded over 27,000 times. In recent years, he has also participated in international publicly-funded projects aimed at cruise tourism development (e.g. European TEMPUSX program – Development of Cruise Tourism in the Black Sea Region). Prior to joining academia, he pursued a career at TUI, Europe’s leading tourism group.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Zaidy Afrin
UN Fellow of Government of Grenada´s Blue Innovation Institute & Ph.D. Candidate at World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden
Vera Agostini
Deputy Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Kristal Ambrose
Founder and Director, Bahamas Plastic Movement; Ph.D. Candidate, World Maritime University (WMU), Sweden
Steven Bograd
Supervisory Research Oceanographer, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Institute of Marine Sciences (UCSC), USA
Jens Brandenburg
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Isabella Lövin
Chair, Stockholm Environment Institute & Co-chair, Friends of Ocean Action & Author, Sweden
Carolyn Lundquist
Associate Professor at University of Auckland, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand
Flower E. Msuya
Senior Researcher, Founder & Chairperson, Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative, Tanzania
Christian Müller
Head of marine resource exploration, German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
Alexis Papathanassis
Professor for Cruise Tourism Management, the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Angelique Pouponneau
Policy Adviser to the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Seychelles
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, France
Jörn Schmidt
Chair of Science Committee, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark
Merete Tandstad
EAF-Nansen Programme Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy