Anna Kyriakaki is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Tourism Economics and Management, University of the Aegean, in Locality and Social Sustainability in Tourism. She has taught at the Postgraduate Program in “Strategic Management of Tourism Destinations and Hospitality Enterprises” since 2009. She is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Postgraduate Program in “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Tourism” at the University of West Attica, Aegean University, National Centre for Social Research and Tutor at the Postgraduate Program in “Management of Tourism Enterprises” and Undergraduate program “Tourism Management” at the Hellenic Open University. She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainable Tourism Development, a M.Sc. in “Tourism, Planning, Management and Policy”, and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of the Aegean, Greece.

Her major research interests are in tourism development, specifically in locality, sustainability, special and alternative forms of tourism, and sociology of tourism.

She teaches tourism modules in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs, such as Development and Management of Special and Alternative forms of Tourism, Tourism Development, Economic and Physical Planning of Tourism, Tourism Management, Tourism and Hospitality Services Management, Sociology and Anthropology of Tourism, etc.

She has contributed to several national and international research projects in tourism development and her work has been published in international academic journals and conference proceedings. She is a reviewer at international academic journals, and an active member of the Laboratory of Innovative Tourism Entrepreneurship and Human Resources Development (iTED Lab) at the University of the Aegean.