Harald Zeiss

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Harald Zeiss (born January 19, 1972 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) is a German economist and expert in sustainable tourism. Since 2011 he has been teaching as a professor for tourism management and business administration at the Harz University of Applied Sciences in Wernigerode .

Life

Zeiss grew up in Simmern in the Hunsrück and moved with his family to Madagascar in the capital Antananarivo in 1985 . There he went to the French school and graduated in 1990 with the French Baccalauréat . Back in Simmern, he completed his community service at the district hospital and a banking apprenticeship at Hunsrück Bank eG.

Zeiss began his university career in 1995 at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Nuremberg , which he left in 2001 with a degree in business administration. He obtained a double degree in international law and political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg . In the USA, Zeiss completed a Master of Business Administration in the field of international marketing and branding. He received his doctorate in 2005 from WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management , where he worked as the assistant to the rector, Klaus Brockhoff .

After joining TUI Deutschland GmbH in Hanover in 2005, Zeiss worked in several departments of the tourism group in a managerial position, including customer service, product management, product development and quality management. From 2009 to 2016 Zeiss was Head of Sustainability Management at TUI Deutschland. In 2011 he took over the professorship for tourism management and business administration at the Harz University of Applied Sciences in Wernigerode with a focus on sustainability and international tourism .

In 2011, Zeiss founded the Institute for Sustainable Tourism as a GmbH based at the Harz University of Applied Sciences, of which he is the managing director.

Zeiss received the VDRJ Columbus Prize at the CMS in Stuttgart in 2015. The prize has been awarded every year since 1975 by the  Association of German Travel Journalists  . Zeiss was honored for its outstanding services to sustainable tourism.

Memberships and honorary positions

Zeiss has been the chairman of the sustainability committee of the German travel association ( DRV ) since 2016 , chairman of the sustainability initiative of the German tourism industry Futouris eV and since 2012 in the specialist committee for sustainable tourism of the German tourism association ( DTV ). In addition, since 2011 he has been chairing the environmental advisory board of the Saxony-Anhalt Tourism Association (LTV) in Magdeburg. Zeiss has been deputy director of the Institute for Tourism Research (ITF), an in-institute at the Harz University of Applied Sciences, since 2015. In addition, Zeiss is regularly part of the jury for the TODO Prize of the Study Group for Tourism and Development .

Fonts

  • Gössling, S., Zeiss, H., Hall, CM, Martin-Rios, C., Ram, Y., & Grøtte, IP (2018). A cross-country comparison of accommodation manager perspectives on online review manipulation. Current Issues in Tourism , pp. 1–20.
  • H. Zeiss, D. Dürkop: Socio-economic effects of all-inclusive systems in developing and emerging countries. In: Journal of Tourism Science. Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 169–191.
  • H. Zeiss: Sustainable travel from the perspective of a German tour operator. In: P. Aderholz, A. Kösterke, D. von Laßberg (Ed.): Tourism in developing and emerging countries. Seefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815367-5-1 , pp. 253-256.
  • M. Griese, H. Zeiss: How can companies position themselves strategically? Positioning on the topic of sustainability. In: CCaSS News. Issue 17, 2012, pp. 4–9.
  • H. Zeiss: The management holding company: aspiration, reality and further development. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-8322-4529-4 .
  • H. Zeiss: The management holding concept: goals and challenges of implementation in corporations. In: magazine leadership + organization. 75th vol., No. 4/06, 2006, pp. 198-206.
  • BN Kumar, I. Graf, H. Zeiss: Multinational companies and international corruption: Control deficits in the legal framework and business preventive measures. In: KA Schachtschneider, H. Piper, M. Hübsch (ed.): Transport - Economy - Law. Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10265-7 , pp. 489-525.
  • W. French, H. Zeiss, A. Scherer: Intercultural Discourse Ethics: Testing Trompenaars' and Hampden-Turner's Conclusions about Americans and the French. In: Journal of Business Ethics. vol. 34, No. 3-4, 2001, pp. 145-159

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Zeiss: Inatour | Make tourism sustainable. In: www.inatour.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ VDRJ Columbus Honorary Award 2015: Prof. Dr. Harald Zeiss - VDRJ . In: VDRJ . ( vdrj.de [accessed December 29, 2016]).
  3. ↑ www.drv.de - DRV Sustainability Committee. In: www.drv.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Team members archive. Accessed April 20, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ German Tourism Association: DTV specialist committees | Sustainable Tourism - German Tourism Association. In: www.deutschertourismusverband.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
  6. ^ State Tourism Association of Saxony-Anhalt: LTV Environmental Advisory Board | State Tourism Association Saxony-Anhalt. In: www.tourismusverband-sachsen-anhalt.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Zeiss, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück