Faculty Member, International Tourism Management Studies
About
Pieter Piket, Ph.D. (1960) is senior lecturer at NHTV. Piket studied International Managerial Economics at Tilburg University (Netherlands, 1978 -1985). He conducted his Ph.D. research at CentER, the world-class business & economics research institute of Tilburg University (1987-1992). His Ph.D. thesis was about the commercial policy of the European Union with regard to the Central and Eastern European Countries. During his research he worked for some time as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Academy of Economics in Cracow (Poland).
In 1992 he started his career at NHTV as general office manager at NHTV International Services, its international tourism educational project office (1992-1997). He combined this main task with part-time assignments as project manager, consultant and senior lecturer at the joint NHTV – University of Humberside (UK) MBA programme.
Since 1997 he has been working as senior lecturer at the International Tourism Studies Department of NHTV. In the framework of the NHTV lecturer exchange programme he visited the Northern Arizona University (USA) as Visiting Associate Professor in the Departments of Business Administration and Hotel and Restaurant Management.
Since 1 August 2008 he has been working as well as Economic Research Fellow at NHTV Center for Sustainable Transport and Tourism / NHTV Associate Professorship Sustainable Transport and Tourism.
His main areas of lecturing and research interest are: managerial and financial accounting, tourism economics, economic aspects of sustainability, international economics, and international organizations. He is a member of the professional bodies the Royal Dutch Economic Society and the Travel and Tourism Research Association. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of International Tourism & Hospitality Research.
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