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Prof. Chris (Christos) A. Vassiliadis (e-mail: chris@uom.edu.gr; Internet, http://ba.uom.gr/mkt; skype: chris.vassiliadis) constitutes member of the academic teaching and research staff of the Department of Business Administration of the University Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests focus in the marketing of services and the management of tourist destinations. His research has been published in various journals, as, Journal of Targeting; Measurement and Analysis for Marketing, Τourismos: an International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism, Τourism and Ηospitality Μanagement, Journal of Tourism Management, Journal of Vacational Marketing, Journal of International Tourism Research, Journal of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing and the Journal of Tourism Analysis. Also he was for 17 years collaborating member of the Greek Open University in the unit of Business Administration and Organizations, and especially for the Marketing II courses (at the different year classes mostly in Thessaloniki area). He constitutes member of Interdepartmental Program of the Postgraduate Study in Business Administration of the University of Macedonia (MBA and MBA executive program) where he was responsible for teaching and supervising Marketing lessons and related student master level theses, until today from the year 2000. He was also a member of the Teaching staff during the above period as external teaching staff in the Master program of the Open University Cyprus, The Master program on Services Marketing of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB),at a Master program of  the University of Thessaly, a Master Program Taiwan and that of the Bachelor program of the Hellenic Open University. The above allocates a post doctorate title of research in the humanitarian sciences. He has participated in various international congresses; he is a reviewer in different academic journals and memebr of editorial boards and he is the writer of the following academic books: [1]. “The Administration and Marketing of Tourism Destinations” (in Greek, 4th edit.), [2]. “Customer Relationship Management and Marketing of Tourism Destinations” (in Greek, 2nd edit.) and [3]. “The Administration and Marketing of Events and Exhibitions” (in Greek, 2nd Edit.) and other Books &  Book Chapters. Today he also the director of the PhD Dept program, Departmental Erasmus academic responsible, and Dierector of the Master in Tourism Management Program (MTM)  in the BA Dept of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki Greece, where he has taught tourism related courses (Special tourism types, Tourism Management and Marketing).