Sven Groß
personal information
- Biography
Hochschule Harz
University of Applied Studies and ResearchWernigerode, Germany
Email: sgross@hs-harz.de
Sven Groß, born in 1969, studied Tourism Geography and Economics at the University of Trier and Spatial Planning at the University of Dortmund. He got his Masters Degree in 1998 and was over several years a management and community consultant, personal assistant to the mayor of Bad Dürkheim and research associate at the chair of tourism economics and management at the Dresden University of Technology. In 2004, he did his PhD in the Department of Traffic and Transport Sciences Friedrich List at Dresden University of Technology. Since 2005 he is Professor for Transport Carrier Management at the Hochschule Harz – University of Applied Studies and Research, Wernigerode/Germany.
Research Interests
Main research areas include tourism and transport (e.g. mobility management in tourism, airline management, and transport concepts for destinations), sport tourism and events, business travel management (Online Booking Engines, web 2.0), event marketing and management as well as tourist market research. He has authored nearly 50 publications on these subjects.
- Publications
- Handbook of Low Cost Airlines – Strategies, Business Processes and Market Environment (including 3 articles: Basic Business Model of European Low Cost Airlines – An Analysis of Typical Characteristics; Low Cost Airlines and Coach Tourism – Threats and Opportunities for German Tour Operators; Transferring the Low Cost Strategy to Ship, Bus and Rental Car Companies)
- Low Cost Airlines in Europe (German book)
- Guest Surveys in Tourist Market Research (German book)- Mobility Management in Tourism (German book)
- Tourism and Sport Events (German book)
- Security and Safety in Tourism and Transport (German book)- Requirements on an independent tourism science in the German spoken area (German article, in: Tourismus Journal, 2/2004, pp. 243-263)
