Professor Alfonso Vargas

Alfonso Vargas Sánchez is a full professor at the University of Huelva, in its Management and Marketing Department. 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 on Social Economy (management of agrarian co-ops), and, currently, tourist companies. 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. From different positions, he also serves to a number of national and international scientific journals and as a reviewer of many others. He has had several books published in the research area of decision-making. His latest publications include Tourism and the wine-making industry: perspectives and proposals for development in the province of Huelva(in collaboration, 2008); DirecciónEstratégica / Strategic Management (2009); Assessment of professional competences (in collaboration, 2010) and Industrial Tourism in the Province of Cádiz (in collaboration, 2011).He is also the author of several articles published in various academic journals. He is currently Visiting Professor of York St John University (UK), member of the General Council of the University of the Algarve (Portugal), and external expert of the Agency for Assessment and Acreditation of Higher Education, Portugal.He leads the Iberian Circle of Business Economy (CIBECEM, network of border Spanish and Portuguese Universities) and the Spanish-Portuguese Network of Researchers on Tourism (REINTUR).

http://www.uhu.es/45122 - http://www.uhu.es/GEIDETUR