Konstantinos Tsagkarakis holds a master degree in Tourism policy from the University of the Aegean (Chios, Greece) as well as a master degree in the science of geography and spatial management from the Charokopion University. He also holds a degree in pedagogies (Higher School of Pedagogic and Education, Athens, Greece). He works as an educator in vocational training institutes and he teaches in the travel agency department, and in technical tertiary education (Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece) in which he teaches in the departments of Tourism Industry as well as the department of Commerce and Advertising. Moreover, he teaches in the English-speaking section of the department of the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, which is meant for exchange students (exchange programmes: Erasmus and Mundus). Currently he is a vocational educator in Tourism Industry departments of both private and public Vocational Training Institutes (in Greek: IEK) and Vocational Training Centres (in Greek: KEK). Apart from being an educator, he has experience in business consulting: he had supported in the participation of local administration businesses in trans-regional EU funded programmes in the frame of the European Union Initiative INTERREG IIIC. Finally, he has experience in consulting private businesses.
Given that tourism and hospitality as an industry make up a large part of the global GDP and jobs offered,
More and more it becomes clearer that sustainability in tourism is not just about the environment as it has been