Academy Structure
Structure
Honorary Body
Management Body
Founder & President
José Antonio Vidal
Member of Senior Advisor Boards in: the World Association for Hospitality and Tourism Education and Training (AMFORHT, Paris); the EnoGastroTourism Commission (ICTE-Spanish Tourism Quality Seal, Ministry of Tourism Spain); the Commission for the Professional Qualification of EnoGastroTourism Guide (INCUAL, Ministry of Education of Spain).
Academic Director and Lecturer, Master ‘Responsible Gastro&Eno Tourism Management’, National University UNED, Madrid (Spain)
Academic Director and Lecturer:
Master ‘Responsible EnoGastroTourism Management’, National University of Distance Education UNED, Madrid (Spain)
Master ‘VitEno’ (Viticulture and Enology), Unit ‘Responsible EnoGastroTourism’, Faculty of Agronomist Engineering–Polytechnic University, Madrid (Spain)
Honorary President ‘In Memoriam’
Dr. Eduardo Fayos-Solà
Senior Adviser, George Washington University (GW)
Regional Director of Europe, UN Tourism
Full Professor of Applied Economics, Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
Ulysses Laureate Prize, UN Tourism
President of Honor
Dr. Rafael Ansón
Dr. Honoris Causa and Director Gastronomy Chair, Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio
President of Honor, International Academy of Gastronomy (Paris, France)
Ambassador for Sustainable Tourism, UN Tourism
CEO & OPERATIONS MANAGER
José Antonio Vidal
DIR. MEMBERS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Dina Gimbatova
Master in International Business Protocol, EIP Int’l Protocol School (Madrid, Spain)
Master in Tourism Marketing, ESERP Business School (Madrid, Spain)
Higher Technician in Tourist Accommodation Management, European University (Madrid, Spain)
DIR. COORDINATION for RESEARCH and ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
PhD Javier Sánchez-Verdejo
Professor Doctor, the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (Spain)
Academician, the International Academy of Social Sciences (Florida, USA)
Member of the Board, the European Foundation ‘Jean Monnet’ (Switzerland)
LatAm REGIONAL DIRECTOR
PhD Gabriel Fidel
Vice-Rector and Full Professor of Political Economy
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina)
LatAm COUNTRY DIRECTORS
CHILE
Jorge Espinoza
Former Member and Colchagua Wine Route creator, SERNATUR-National Tourism Service for O’Higgins region
Professor Tourism career, Universidad de Los Lagos
MEXICO
Nora Bringas
Coordinator of the Tourism Observatory of Baja California
URUGUAY
Laura Nervi, Agronomist Eng.
Specialization in wine marketing and enotourism, Univ. of the Republic of Uruguay
Lecturer, Gato Dumas Institute
Other COUNTRY DIRECTORS
CHINA
PhD Haiyan Song
Associate Dean, School of Hotel and Tourism Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
GREECE
Dr. Panagiota Dionysopoulou.
Director General of Tourism Policy, Ministry of Tourism
Professor School of Social Science, Tourism Business Administration MSc, Hellenic Open University (HOU)
PORTUGAL
Bebiana Monteiro
Professor and Director of the Graduate Course in Wine Tourism
School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto
SPAIN
PhD Aurora Pedro
Director of the Chair of New Green Transition in Tourism
PhD in Economics and Professor of Applied Economics
University of Valencia
FELLOWS:
Rectors, deans, PhDs, professors and master coordinators from the most prestigious universities and business schools, specialized in ‘wine, gastro and agri’ tourism intelligence, intangible culture, destination management and related fields, acting under their own names and with no direct business interests on wine and/or tourism industries.