Director

China Outbound Tourism Research Institute

Born and raised in West Berlin. Studies in Sinology, Sociology, Political Sciences in Berlin, Taiwan, Hong Kong. MA in Sinology, Ph.D. in Political Sciences. Professional work as consultant and entrepreneur in European-Asian cooperation in Transportation, Tourism, Cultural Management and Intercultural Relations.

Academic work as lecturer for universities in Germany and China, since 2001 full-time professorship for Tourism Economics and Management. Currently Director of International Tourism Management Study Programs (BA and MA) at West Coast University of Applied Sciences, Heide/Germany. Visiting Professor at Chinese universities of Yanbian and Ningbo and of Sunderland University (UK). Board member of ELRA European Leisure Research Association, director of COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute. Member of AIEST.

Former Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at NIES (Tsukuba/Japan), visiting researcher at University of Brighton (Eastbourne/UK), invited key note speaker for Tourism Conferences in China and Japan. In 2006 lecturer for German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at SunYatsen University, Tourism and Planning Institute (Guangzhou/China).

Author of the seminal book “China’s Outbound Tourism” (Routledge/Oxford, 2006) and other publications related to this topic in German, English, Italian, Japanese and Chinese.

Company

West Coast University for Applied Sciences in Heide, Germany is a state-run German university. The BA and MA International Tourism Management courses are taught in English.

Contact details:

COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute

Fachhochschule Westkueste

Fritz-Thiedemann-Ring 20, 25746 Heide, Germany

Tel: +49-(0)481-8555 513

Fax: +49-(0)481-8555 121

Email:arlt@fh-westkueste.de / info@china-outbound.com