Oliver Kesar
Oliver Kesar is a Tenured Professor at the Department of Tourism, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia. In 2006, he completed his doctoral studies defending PhD thesis on the economic effects of tourist consumption. During his 27+ years of working experience in science and higher education, he proved himself as a teacher, scientist, researcher, reviewer and consultant. The main areas of his expertise are tourism economics, special interest tourism development, visitor attraction management and collaboration networks in tourism. He has participated in several scientific and professional projects and has been a member of a number of program, scientific and organizational committees of international scientific conferences in the field of economy and tourism. He is active in publishing scientific papers, articles and textbooks. During his career he has participated in teaching various tourism-related courses at the university level in Croatia and abroad. He is a member of the editorial boards of two international scientific journals and an active member of the Croatian Society of Economists (CSE) and the Croatian Meeting Professionals Association (CMPA).