About Me
Mr. Ali Sukru Cetinkaya (PhD.) is an Assistant Proffessor at Selcuk
University, Vocational School of Silifke - Tasucu, in the field of
Tourism Administration and Hospitality Management. Çetinkaya is a
Visiting Research Scholar at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Pumplin College of Business,
Department of Hospitality and Tourism
Management, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, since August 2011.
Cetinkaya has over 5 years of industry experiance. He worked at İstanbul
Hilton, Mersin Hilton, Kusadasi Pine Park and Istanbul Aksaray TUI
Travel Agency and many other hospitality and tourism establishments, in
the departments of food and beverage, reception, housekeeping, tour
operations (tour planning, production, marketing and tour leading),
ticketing (both manuel and computerized), congress and conference
organization, and recreation and animation.
Cetinkaya has a special interest on Information Technologies, especially
the effects of IT in the hospitality and tourism industry. He has many
national and international researches targeting IT in tourism and
hospitality industry. He holds Informatics Certificate (by Middle-East
Technical University).
He is a co-author of a text book named "Management
in Hospitality and Tourism Organizations Under the Light of Information
Technologies: An Informatics Viewpoint" (2003, Nobel Yayin
Dagitim, Turkey, ISBN: 975 - 591 - 469 - 2).
He is a co-outher of editor-managed research book named "Progress
in Tourism Marketing"
(ELSEVIER, London, 2006, ISBN: 0-08-045040-7).
Cetinkaya is Executive Co-editor of
HOSTEUR (for Future Hospitality &
Tourism Professionals, A student webzine from the International Council
on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education) and Editorial Board
Member of
Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management
(JHMM by Haworth Press Inc.).
Cetinkaya has successfully accomplished four different EU funded
Leonardo da Vinci Projects, one CEDEFOP Study Visit Organization
Project, and he has already attended two different EU funded and CEDEFOP
organized Study Visits in United Kingdom and in Germany. Cetinkaya
manages and directs current
ECVET TC-NET Project's local
partner operations since May 2009.