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Peter Varga

Dr Peter Varga

Dr Peter Varga

Professeur Assistant

Expertise

  • Anthropologie et tourisme
  • Intelligence culturelle
  • Durabilité socioculturelle
  • Culture d'hospitalité durable
  • Développement du tourisme

Biographie

Peter Varga, PhD, est Professeur Assistant à l'EHL. Ses recherches portent sur les dynamiques socioculturelles durables des pratiques touristiques actuelles dans les sociétés d'accueil, l'intelligence culturelle dans les rencontres de services interculturels et le symbolisme dans l'alimentation et les habitudes alimentaires d'un point de vue culturel.


Il a obtenu un doctorat en sciences sociales, spécialisation en anthropologie du tourisme, à l'Université de Guadalajara et un master en sociologie avec une spécialisation en économie et société, à l'Université d'Europe centrale et à l'Université de Lancaster.

Récompenses

Outstanding Paper Award Runner-Up for 'A modified value chain analysis of tourism development in the Inlay Lake region, Myanmar', Conference Proceedings of BEST EN Think Tank XV (2015)

Formation

PhD in Social Sciences, Specialisation in Anthropology of Tourism, University of Guadalajara

Cours enseignés

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
• Corporate Sustainability
• Gestion de la responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise
• Sustainability transitions and Innovation in business
MASTER IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
• Foundations of Sustainability

Lieu d'enseignement

EHL Campus Lausanne

Publications dans des revues

Varga, P., & Muñoz-Barriga, A. (2025). The Broken Golden Egg of the Galapagos: Mistrust and short sightedness in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. International Marketing Journal of Culture and Tourism, 7, 81-89. Retrieved from https://imjct.com/archives/issue-7/issue-7-7/

Laaksonen, S. and Varga, P. (2024). Assessing the impact of selfie-taking tourists on local tour guides in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: A netnographic analysis of a dark tourism location. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 19(3), 331-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2292147

Varga, P., Rouger, M. A., Terrier, L., Zizka, L., & Zivkovic, P. (2022). Welcome to My Home: Muslim Residents' Perceptions of Western Tourists. Tourism: an international interdisciplinary journal, 70(4), 571-584. https://doi.org/10.37741/t.70.4.3

Zizka, L., & Varga, P. (2021). Teaching sustainability in higher education institutions: Assessing hospitality students’ sustainability literacy. Journal of hospitality & tourism education, 33(4), 242-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2020.1726771

Martin-Rios, C., Zizka, L., Varga, P., & Pasamar, S. (2020). KITRO: Technology solutions to reduce food waste in Asia-Pacific hospitality and restaurants. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 25(10), 1128-1135. https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2020.1773513

Terrier, L., Varga, P. Scaroni, A., & Zizka, L. (2020). To go or not to go, that is the question: Using social influence to reduce hot beverage cup waste, Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 23(4), 350-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/15378020.2020.1768041

Leroy, P., & Varga, P. (2019). The symbolic understanding of milk in Swiss gastronomy. Research in Hospitality Management, 9(1), 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/22243534.2019.1653608

Worwag, S., Varga, P., & Zizka, L. (2019). Tourists’ Ethical Concern for Dumbo: Elephant Tourism in Thailand. Journal of Travel, Tourism and Recreation, 1(2), 17-27. https://doi.org/10.22259/2642-908X.0102002

Haslebacher, C., Varga, P., & Murphy, H.C. (2019). Insights from images posted on social media: Examining the motivations of volunteer tourists. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 18(2), 259-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332845.2019.1558490

Varga, P., & Binder, A. (2015). Sociocultural Hurdles of Sustainable Hospitality Management. Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, 4(1), 77-92. https://doi.org/10.7603/s40930-015-0005-7