Dr. Bernhard Bauer

Team leader and tourism strategic planner for the UNWTO financed project "Technical assistance to promote recovery of the tourism activity in the aftermath of the lockdown, regaining consumer confidence and building resilience in the tourism sector in the Republic of Maldives; leading a team of 4 key experts with several missions to the Maldive islands for meetings with the Ministry of Tourism and the Japan International Cooperation Agency as the donor agency.

Adjunct professor for teaching a course about "International networks in the tourism industry" for BA students at the SRH School of Management in Dresden.

Project website: https://slowfood-covcheg.az/en/the-covcheg-project Main tasks: - selection and employment of a local Slow Food team: Project Manager, Communications and Event Manager, Local Coordinator - Supervision of all project activities and making sure that the activities are finished on time - Drafting of official project progress reports including the financial reporting - Drafting of the market study "Culinary and Rural Tourism in Azerbaijan" - Active member of the project steering committee

Oman 2018: Tourism Master Plan for the Governorate of Mascat Tanzania 2014-2015: Development of a tourism and marketing strategy for the Southern circuit of Tanzania Dominican Republic 2014-2015: Actualization of the National Tourism Strategy Ethiopia 2013-2014: Enhancement of the Tourism Statistics Management System Ethiopia 2012: Tourism Baseline Survey Dominican Republic 2012: Development of sustainable tourism products in Puerto Plata Colombia &Peru 2011: E-Commerce development

- strategic advice to the management board about the progress of key projects and setting up Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for all projects and departments; monitoring of KPIs and its visualisation with dashboards; - drafting of the Azerbaijan Tourism Strategy 2023 paper for the years 2019 and 2020; - leading the implementation of the EU financed project Slow Food Azerbaijan;

Support for Austrian companies exporting goods and services to Italy and Malta, industrial cooperation and networking between SME´s; Responsibility for the sectors of tourism, renewable energies, environment, inquiries about taxes and labour laws in Italy, and all economic sectors for the island of Malta; Elaboration of country reports for Malta and Italy regarding the actual economic and political situation with a focus on the main interesting sectors for Austrian exporters;

Greece 2016: Technical Assistance to support tourism planning and policy for the promotion of sustainable tourism development in Greece, financed by the EC Iran 2016: Business development and sustainable job creation in the R. of Iran, financed by UNIDO. Tourism product and health tourism development in the provinces of Semnan & Kermanshah Vietnam 2013 - 2016: Training about E-marketing, responsible tourism management, and destination marketing to public tourism authorities

Project: Technical Assistance action to support tourism planning and policy for the promotion of sustainable tourism development in Greece • Selection of the three pilot destinations • Interviews and meetings with public &private stakeholders • Development of an in-depth action plan for the 3 sites regarding planning including policy recommendations and description of human resources needed for its implementation • reporting to the General Secretary of the Ministry of Culture & Ministry of Tourism

tutoring of modules of the BID INDES course "Enhancing e-commerce for public administrations and private SME´s" Composition of a "Best Practice analysis of e-commerce exporting countries" for the teaching material including interactive exercises for course participants (around 40 participants from public institutions of export commerce chambers in Central and South America) Management of the online forum discussion with course participants Correction of exams and overall course evaluation

• Research for the institutional, cultural and tourism development project “CondividiAMO” • Conduction of qualitative interviews with experts of the project area and quantitative interviews with the local population including statistical analysis of data; • 2 day training course for decision makers about institutional and tourism product development, creation of tourism itineraries • writing of a final report including a public presentation in front of public institutions and key stakeholders

Assistant of Director, Overseas Department for Cultural Heritage • Project Management, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, Research; • Writing of project tenders for World Bank, EC (EuropeAid), UN (UNESCO and UNWTO); • First contact with key external organisations, delegates, partners, experts; • Writing and correction of official reports/presentations for several projects; formulation of policies for cultural heritage management and conservation; • Communication with public and private donors;

Management of the People to People Ambassador Program in Valencia Cross Cultural Communication for American students & Spanish host-families, solving culturally related misunderstandings, language barriers & personal issues First contact person on site for tour delegates, host-families and students Responsible for problem solving between students & host-families Collaboration with the Spanish language school Instituto San Fernando concerning the preparation of info-sheets and care of host-families

Participation at all plenary sessions of the Permanent Council, conferences, seminars, workshops, meetings of OSCE institutions and the OSCE Parliament at the Secretariat in Vienna Minutes writing, reporting, drafting, editing of reports & documentation of the above mentioned events for distribution to internal staff & field offices Data collection, writing of analytical papers & synthetic reports Technical & administrative assistance to the Meetings Assistant Team

Cultural Economy, Commodification of Culture, Ethnographic Field Research, Cultural Tourism,

Tourism Economics, Economics of Culture, Sustainable Tourism Development, Social and Cultural Policy Development and Formulation, Tour Operating, Hospitality Operations, Marketing, E-Commerce, Tourism Distribution Channels, Personal Development, Training and Skills Development, etc.

International Development Co-operation, Social and Cultural Analysis, Conflict Studies, Anthropology of Consumption, Central- and Latin America, Geography, Spanish, Ethnohistory, Management of Museums and Exhibitions, Development Studies, International Relations, Social Research Methodologies, etc.