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Lorant Denes Dr. David

John von Neumann University, Hungarian University of Ariculture and Life Sciences, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Debrecen, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Research areas: Business, Management and Accounting · Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Community-based Tourism Development and Sustainability · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

ORCID iD 0000-0001-7880-9860
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Prof. Dr. habil. habil. habil. Lóránt Dénes Dávid is an extremely versatile Hungarian scholar. Born in 1968, he graduated in History, Geography, Tourism, Catering and Hospitality, European Studies and as a Geography-English Technical Translator. He was a scholarship holder in Oxford, Cambridge, London and Amsterdam. Married, they have 3 sons (12, 11, 7 year old, wife and children have double citizenships: Hungarian, Romanian). His native language is Hungarian, and he speaks English and some Russian. After earning his PhD degree from the University of Debrecen, Hungary in Geography (Earth Sciences) in 2001, he completed the habilitation processes in 3 disciplines (Management and Business Administration, Environmental Sciences, and Regional Sciences – probably the only person in the world to do this). He has become an internationally recognized researcher and professor in the fields of geography and tourism, and holds full-professor positions in Poland, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary. His extensive research has resulted in many prestigious journal articles, studies, papers and books. His work is available in the best-known databases (SCOPUS, Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics). Furthermore, he has developed an exemplary international professional cooperation network, has served as a guest professor at many universities in Europe and overseas (in all continents in a lot of countries, including USA, Russia, Japan). As an awardee of the Jean Monnet Professorship (EU Commission), he designed and implemented a major educational program in tourism and regional development. Moreover, he has been very active in editing scholarly journals. He is an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in Austria. His research fields: tourism, hospitality, geography, earth sciences, environmentalism, regional studies and sciences, sustainable development, multi-, trans- and interdisciplinary fields.

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  • Jean Monnet Professorship Research Executive Agency
    2008 - 2012

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