| since 10/2022 | Scientific Director at NIT |
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| October 2019 | until | August 2022 | Professor for Tourism at the Westcoast University of Applied Sciences in Heide (Germany) |
| since 10/2007 | Head of Research at NIT |
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| 1998 | until | 2007 | Partner and Managing Director at Project M Tourism Consulting and Research (with Professor Edgar Kreilkamp and Cornelius Obier) |
| 1995 | until | 2000 | Ph.D. in Marketing/Consumer Research, Research assistant at Lüneburg University |
| 1993 | Freelancer at Studienkreis für Tourismus, Starnberg |
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| 1990 | until | 1995 | M.A. in business administration, geography and tourism management at Lüneburg University (now: Leuphana University) |
| 1986 | until | 1989 | Vocational training as tourism expert |
| 1986 | Abitur at the Gymnasium der Benediktiner in Meschede/Sauerland |
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| 1967 | born in Lünen (Germany) |
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Vita
Fields of work: Travel research, decision making, information processes, destination research, empirical methods, data analytics
Publications: Please see my ORCID profile or, for a more complete list, my German staff page.