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Árpád Karsai - Employee profile
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Dr. Árpád Karsai
Department of Tourism
Visiting lecturer
Dr. Árpád Karsai
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  • Office:1054 Budapest, Alkotmány utca 9-11.
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  • Email:karsai.arpad@uni-bge.hu

Introduction

Lecturer of tourism in different Universities and Colleges (BBS, Metropolitan, Kodolányi, Edutus) till 2018. Since the 2019 lecturer exclusively in BBS (BGE). Subjects of educational activity: Tourism Planning, Sustainable Tourism, Tourism law and institutions, Business Tourism (MICE), Travel Agency Management, Business law Accomplishments as a lecturer:Education of practical knowledge of creating travel packages, managing a profitable company in the travel business, teaching the issues of consumer protection in tourism in a way that students coming from all over the world get instant methods of setting up and successfully managing a company in the field of tourism. Practical based law education (theory and case studies) in Competition Law, Consumer Protection, Corporate Law, Labor Law, and the Law of licensing and management of hotels, air carriers' ticket sales, and travel agencies. Quality insurance and management in tourism. Education of EU and Hungarian rules of packages and linked arrangements in the field of inbound, outbound, domestic tourism, E-commerce. Accomplishments as a travel consultant. Experienced Advisor of Tourism Planning with a community-based tourism approach in destination development thinking. Strengths in strategic planning in tourism and successfully coordinating creative industry players for proving and implementing tourism as an economical breakout engine. (Tourism Concepts, Strategies, Feasibility Studies). As vice-president of the Association of Tourism Consultants acting as a participant of forums, round table meetings focusing on regional and national tourism development and marketing, publishing several articles in travel sector journals.
Research fields: Tourism regional development planning and management. Planning of tourism attraction, infra, and suprastructure, organization, and marketing. World Heritage. Trends in tourism. Overtourism. Tourism relationships with Japan. Language skills: English, Italian, Japanese, French Graduated: University of Law (BA), Postgraduate course of Tourism, Course of Cultural Tourism Interpretation, I.A.T.A course (flight ticket sales course), Licenced guide with long experience. Membership Association membership: MUISZ (Non-travel agency member) TUTSZ (Association of Travel Developers and Consultants) vice-president Field of research. Research fields and accomplishments (as director of S.O.S. Tourism Consulting C.O.an advisory bureau since 1996) .-Tourism strategy and feasibility study for Vác Town Baroque Town Center and Museum Quarter Development Plan 2018;
Chief coordinator and travel consultant of a new Hungarian Unesco candidate destination: The Danube Limes Cultural Thematic Route (Tourism concept and feasibility study of a new Hungarian UNESCO Candidate Karsai A, et al 2016;Tourism concept of a new Hungarian Cultural Thematic Route (Co-author with Balogh T.) 2014 Professional Speaker at the Hungaricum Conference 2013, Icomos Conference 2017, Perspectives Conference 2019Series of publication in travel professional magazines and leading national newspapers, Television and radio interviews nationwide; Presentations, interviews, background materials and lectures on touristic destination management; Study and publication about the sustainability of World Heritage sites. Gap analysis of Hungarian sites, presentation of a Japanese best practice WH site Shirakawago Surveys, realized projects of Attraction development, Touristic Suprasctructures, Organizational System and Marketing Planning of certain destinations;Activity for spreading the Community based Tourism Management (DMO-s) in Hungary.

Subject(s) taught

  • Basics of Business Law (Hungarian and English)
  • Validating Legal Claims in Practice (English)
  • MICE Tourism (Hungarian and English)
  • Basics of Travel Agency Operations (Hungarian)
  • Sales in Travel Business (English)
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