Michael Vogel

Michael P. Vogel (born August 3, 1967 in Düsseldorf ) is professor for tourism management and business administration at the University of Bremerhaven as well as an Ars legendi award winner.

Life

Vogel studied business administration at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) from 1988 to 1993 and graduated with a licentiate (lic. Rer. Pol.). During his studies, he was manager of the AIESEC delegation at the UNO Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 . In 1993/94 he studied at University College London (Great Britain) and obtained a master's degree in environmental and resource economics. In 1997 he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Kiel with a theoretical thesis on the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality (Environmental Kuznets Curves) with summa cum laude.

From 1998 to 1999 he was a strategy consultant at Arkwright Management Consultants (Germany and Scandinavia). From 1999 to 2000 he was a consultant in the corporate development department of the TUI Group. In 2001 and 2002 he headed the coordination office for the integration of the Thomson Travel Group and TUI (both subsidiaries of Preussag AG ). In 2002 and 2003 he worked at Nouvelles Frontières in Paris as a project manager for the founding of TUI France.

Since 2003 he has been professor of tourism management and business administration at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences . From 2003 to 2013 he headed the multiple award-winning Cruise Tourism Management course. In 2008 he and Joachim Winter received the Ars legendi Prize for excellent university teaching from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2009 Vogel initiated the Bremen street magazine Zeitschrift der Straße as a learning project for students and a social project for those in need. Since then he has been running the street magazine on a voluntary basis. In 2014 Vogel received his Doctor of Education doctorate for his research at the Institute of Education at the University of London .

Prices

• 1998: Erich Schneider Memorial Prize from the Institute for Theoretical Economics, University of Kiel
• 1998: Prize from the University of Kiel for the best dissertation in economics
• 2006: Special prize from the Willy Scharnow Foundation for tourism
• 2006: Award of the study course led by Vogel by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
• 2008: Ars legendi Prize for excellent university teaching
• 2009: Teaching Award from the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
• 2009: Award of the von Vogel and his colleague Prof. Dr. W. Lukas developed the GUUGLE concept for the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences - Good and happy to learn & teach by the Stifterverband for German Science and the Conference of Ministers of Education
• 2012: Bremer Bürgerpreis, awarded for Vogel's commitment to the magazine der Straße
• 2014: Award for the magazine der Straße , initiated and managed by Vogel, by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft

Web links

• Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
• Cruise Tourism Management course
• Website of the Stifterverband with the laudation for the award-winning FH reform courses in 2006
• Association for the promotion of civic engagement in Bremen and Bremerhaven eV
• Journal of the Road