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. Antoine L. Lahoud
School of Architecture and Design
Lebanese American University (Lebanon)
Member of ICOMOS – Forum UNESCO
Research Interest: Conservation, Restoration and Cultural Heritage
e-mail: tlahoud@lau.edu.lb

Prof. Kostantinos Tziampasis
Individual expert (Greece)
Research Interest: Archeology and cultural enhancement
e-mail: prof.k.tziampasis@gmail.com

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Regulations of the Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee is set up to perform the following functions:

a) examine the documents related to new applications for membership, express opinions and confirm the scientific importance of the documents on the basis of the provisions in force;

b) express opinions on the activities proposed in the Confederation’s work plan;

c) make proposals;

d) monitor the scientific quality of the activities carried out and the presence of the expected eligibility requirements;

e) monitor the scientific quality of international promotional material;

f) draw up an annual report on the activities carried out.

In addition to the annual meeting at the General Assembly of the Phoenicians’ Route, the members of the Scientific Committee are asked to give their opinion on the candidacies of new members and on the consistency of the activities carried out during the year compared to the objectives established by the General Assembly.

Moreover, the Scientific Committee is required to make contributions through specific research, often subject of both academic publications and international scientific dissemination at events, conferences, seminars, forums, through practical means such as educational activities and in contexts in which members of the Committee operate individually and in specific activities of the Cultural Route.

The work of the Scientific Committee is sometimes supported and supported by the Technical Steering Committee.

Each National Network will be able to create a Scientific Committee of the Network with different competencies and research areas, for example:

  • Archaeology and history
  • Tourism sciences and local development
  • Education and pedagogy
  • Cultural management, culture economy, cultural policies, cultural management
  • Communication and sustainable development

The members of the Scientific Committees of the Networks may also be appointed to join the Transversal Thematic Commissions to support the work of the Scientific Committee mentioned above.

Technical Steering Committee

Dr. Antonio Barone
Director of the Phoenicians’ Route
Unit: Development of Smart Ways and sustainable maritime routes
e-mail: direttore@fenici.net

Dr. Angelofabio Attolico
Unit: Development of Smart Ways and sustainable maritime routes
e-mail: a.attolico.at@regione.puglia.it

Dr. Osama Hamdan
Unit: Development of Smart Ways and sustainable maritime routes
e-mail: afunojerusalem@gmail.com

Dr. Manuel Peregrina
General Secretary of the Phoenicians’ Route Spain
Unit: Development of Smart Ways and sustainable maritime routes
e-mail: rutafenicioshispania@gmail.com

Dr.ssa Marialucia Giacco
Unit: enhancement of cultural and museum sites
e-mail: marialucia.giacco@beniculturali.it 

Dr. Marco Marinuzzi
Unit: enhancement of cultural and museum sites
e-mail: m.marinuzzi@merakisrl.eu

Dr.ssa Eleonora Sandrelli
Coordinator of the Mediterranean Museums Network MeMuNet
Unit: enhancement of cultural and museum sites
e-mail: museums@fenici.net

Dr.ssa Sharon Sultana
Unit: enhancement of cultural and museum sites
e-mail: sharon.sultana@gov.mt

Dr. Valter Giuliani
Responsible for the enhancement of products and territories related to the Mediterranean diet (Taste Maps)
e-mail: valter.giuliani@gmail.com

Dr. Enzo Finocchiaro
Unity: enhancement of the brand and image of the Phoenicians’ Route
e-mail: rottafenici.sostenibile@gmail.com

Committee of Honor

Honorary Presidents of the Phoenicians’ Route

Prof. Xavier Nieto Prieto (Former President 2010-2012)
Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Board (STAB) of the 2001 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

Dr. Walter Cabasino (Former President 2012-2014)
Former Mayor of the Municipality of Pula (Sardinia)

Prof. Arturo Ruiz Rodriguez (Former President 2014-2016)
University of Jaén (Spain)

Prof. Giovanni Brizzi (Former President 2016-2018)
University of Bologna (Italy)

Prof. Michel Thomas-Penette (Former Director, European Institute of Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe)

Prof. Rachid Chamoun (Former President 2018-2020)
LAU Lebanese American University (Lebanon)

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