International Confederation Structure:
President pro tempore of the Confederation:
Mrs Elena Tanou (2020-2022)
Vice-President Top Kinisis, Cyprus
E-mail: president@fenici.net
Director of the Confederation:
Dr. Antonio Barone
Integrated Tourism and lifelong learning expert
Research Interest: Local development and Tourism
e-mail: direttore@fenici.net
Executive Secretary:
Dr.ssa Sara Ferrari
Research Interest: Communication and enhancement of cultural and archaeological heritage, cultural tourism
e-mail: info@fenici.net
Project Officer:
Dr.ssa Clara Mollica
e-mail: edu@fenici.net
Presidency Bureau
Dr.ssa Mª Nava Castro Domínguez, Director of Tourism Galicia
Xunta de Galicia (Spain)
Dr.ssa Carmen Maria Parra del Pino, General Director of Culture
Autonomous City of Melilla (Spain)
Dr.ssa Lucia Di Fatta, General Director of Tourism
Sicily Region (Italy)
Dr. Aldo Patruno, General Director of the Tourism Department
Puglia Region (Italy)
Dr. Stylianos Moraitis, President
Xanthi Chamber of Commerce (Greece)
Dr. Nasos Hadjigeorgiou, Executive Director
Pafos Regional Board of Tourism (Cyprus)
Dr. Wissam Zaarour, Mayor
Municipality of Byblos (Lebanon)
Scientific Committee
Coordinator of the Scientific Committee:
Prof. Paolo Ponzio
Director of the Department of Humanities (DISUM)
University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
e-mail: paolo.ponzio@uniba.it
Other Members:
Prof. Arturo Ruiz Rodriguez (President of the three-year period 2013-2016)
University of Jaén (Spain)
Research Interest: Archeology
e-mail: arruiz@ujaen.es
Prof.ssa Wided Majdoub
University of Sousse (Tunisia)
Research Interest: Economics, Marketing and Development
E-mail: wided.majdoub@gmail.com
Prof.ssa Ksenija Keča
Libertas International University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Research Interest: International Relations and Tourism Management
E-mail: kkeca@libertas.hr
Prof. Karsten Xuereb
University of Malta
Project Manager of Inizjamed
Research Interest: Cultural Policy
e-mail: karsten.xuereb@gmail.com
Prof. Rachid Chamoun
Director LAU – Louis Cardahi Foundation
Lebanese American University (Lebanon) – Byblos Campus
Research Interest: protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, cultural tourism
e-mail: rchamoun@lau.edu.lb
Prof. Kostantinos Tziampasis
Individual expert (Greece)
Research Interest: Archeology and cultural enhancement
e-mail: prof.k.tziampasis@gmail.com