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Alfonso VARGAS (Huelva, Spain, 1962) holds a degree and is a doctor (PhD) in Business Administration from the University of Seville (Spain). Also, he has a Diploma in Upper Management of Universities from the Antonio de Nebrija and Politécnica de Cataluña Universities, and the Certificate of Specialization in Tourism Destination Planning awarded by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

At present, he is a full professor at the University of Huelva, in its Management and Marketing Department.

Since 1985/1986, when he started his career in higher education, he has taught different subjects in the field of Business Economics and Strategic Management, both in degree courses and postgraduate courses and doctorate programs. He has been distinguished by the University of Huelva with the 2002/2003 Teaching Excellence Diploma, and the 2006/2007 Teaching Excellence & Quality Award as a member of the online teaching group of the Faculty of Labour Studies.

His basic research is oriented towards Strategic Management, which is complemented with applied research focused, as main lines, on Social Economy (management of agrarian co-ops), and, currently, tourist companies.

Supervisor of many doctoral theses, he is (or has been) in charge of a number of R&D contracts and projects. Besides, he has been the promoter and academic coordinator of several Erasmus/Socrates bilateral agreements in countries such as (in alphabetical order) Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, UK, etc.; and beyond Europe, in Brazil and USA, particularly in the "Global Village" program by the Iacocca Institute (Lehigh University), in which also serves as a facilitator.

Since 2004 he heads the Research Group named "Innovation and Development Strategies in Tourist Firms" (GEIDETUR), included in the Andalusian Government's Plan of R&D. He also belongs to Marketur (research group on tourism in the Spanish University of Extremadura), to the Advisory Board of WACRA, serving, besides, as a member of scientific committees of various national and international bodies, events & publications.

From different positions, he also serves to a number of national and international scientific journals (it follows in alphabetival order), and as a reviewer of many others: AEDEM-Bibliométrica; Encontros Científicos-Tourism & Management Studies; European Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research (EJTHR); GEOSABERES; International Journal of Case Method Research & Application (también en su versión en español, "Revista Internacional de Investigación y Aplicación del Método de Casos"); INUAF-Studia; Journal of Hospitality Application & Research (JOHAR); Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management (JHMM);  Revista Brasileira de Docência, Ensino e Pesquisa em Administração; Revista Brasileira de Docência, Ensino e Pesquisa em Turismo; Revista de Estudios Cooperativos (REVESCO); Revista de Estudios Empresariales; Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento-Journal of Tourism and Development; Sinergie, rivista di studi e ricerche; Visión de Futuro.

He has had several books published, among them (in chronological order): "Decision-Making Aid Techniques: Theoretical Basis" (in collaboration, 1990); "Practical Cases in Business Decision-Making" (in collaboration, 1990); "Firm, Entrepreneur and Decision-Making" (in collaboration, 1991); "The Co-operative Oil Mills of Huelva. A Proposal of Action to Face the Crisis" (1993);  "Keys for Developing Agrarian Cooperativism. Entrepreneurial Amalgamation and Associationism" (1995); "Strategic Management of the Company. Basis for Formulating the Strategy" (1999); "Strategic Management. Analysis and Diagnostic" (2002 and 2004); "Origins, evolution and perspectives of agrarian cooperativism in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2002); "Guide of Good Environmental Practices. Tourism Sector" (in collaboration, 2003); "Tourism and environment. Environmental diagnosis of the rural lodgings in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2004); "Values in the workplace and university education..." (in collaboration, 2004); "Strategic Management. Theoretical and scientific foundations" (2004); "Sustainability of the hotel company: indicators for its measurement" (in collaboration, 2006); "Industrial tourism in the province of Huelva: present and future" (in collaboration, 2007); "Tourism and the wine-making industry: perspectives and proposals for development in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2008); "Mining tourism in the province of Huelva" (in collaboration, 2009); Dirección Estratégica / Strategic Management (2009); "Assessment of professional competences" (in collaboration, 2010); "Industrial Tourism in the Province of Cádiz" (in collaboration, 2011).

He is also the author of a lot of articles published in journals and other scientific means, such as: Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing; European Journal of Information Systems; Human IT; Journal of High Technology Management Research; Technology Analysis & Strategic Management; International Journal of Case Method Research & Application; Tourism & Management Studies; Journal of Tourism and Development; International Journal of Business Environment; Journal of Travel Research; Annals of Tourism Research; Journal of Sustainable Tourism; Journal of Heritage Tourism; Tourism Management; International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management; Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management; among others. Moreover, he has presented numerous papers in national and international conferences.

Prof. VARGAS has carried out academic activities, both in researching and teaching, in different Universities and higher education institutions around the world, in countries such as -in alphabetical order- Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, Taiwan, UK, USA, ...

Nowadays, he serves as Visitng Professor of York St John Business School (UK) and in the University of the Algarve (Portugal), where he also is invited researcher of CITeL and menber of its General Council. Additionally, he collaborates with the Agency for Assessment and Acreditation of Higher Education, in Portugal, as external expert.

At the University of Huelva, he has served in several positions: Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies, Director of the Management and Marketing Department, Coordinator of the University' Strategic Plan and Head of its Strategic Management Unit, Director of the CEPSA Professorship, among others. At the International University of Andalusia he has been Director of "La Rábida" campus.

Furthermore, he is the representative of Huelva University at the UN-WTO (United Nations-World Tourism Organization) and CUEIM (Consorzio Universitario di Economia Industriale e Manageriale).

He belongs to the scientific following associations (in alphabetical order): Academy for Creative Teaching & World Association for Case Method Research and Application (ACT-WACRA); Andalusian Academy of Regional Science (ACACR); Centre of Research and Information in Public, Social and Co-operative Economy  (CIRIEC); European Academy of Experts, Researchers and Actors in Tourism (EAT); European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM); Iberoamerican Forum on Communication Strategies (FISEC); Spanish Accounting and Business Administration Association (AECA); Spanish Association on Regional Science (AECR); Spanish Association of Scientific Experts on Tourism (AECIT).

He leads the Iberian Circle of Business Economics (CIBECEM, network of border Spanish and Portuguese Universities) and the Spanish-Portuguese Network of Researchers on Tourism (REINTUR). He is also a founder member of the University Association for the Promotion of Social Economy (AUFES).

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