The Laboratory of Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism, and Local Development (HeriTourDev Lab) operates in the REGED Department, which was established by Government Gazette 6767/01.12.2023/TB΄.

With its establishment, the Laboratory HeriTourDev Lab is staffed, according to article 50 of Law 4957/2022, following the decision of the Assembly of the Department, the following faculty members of the Department of Regional and Economic Development of the Agricultural University of Athens:

1. Menegaki Angeliki, Professor in the subject "Applied Economics in Environment, Energy, and Tourism",
2. Katssaiti Marina-Selini, Associate Professor in the subject "Economic analysis with emphasis on Microeconomics",
3. Vlami Emilia, Assistant Professor in the subject "Tourism Economics and Tourism Development",
4. Tsiotas Dimitrios, Assistant Professor in the subject "Regional Economics and Regional Development",
5. Alexiou Spyridon, University Lecturer in the subject "Management of Tourism Units".

The REGED department is associated with two research projects that exist at the GPA, these are:
Program for Regional Excellence in Sterea Greece, "Intelligent Agriculture and Circular Bio-economy - SmartBIC" with code IPS 5047106, which has been included in the Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovation Operational Programme (EPANEK) funded/co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).  NSRF, Amount: EUR 3.000.000, Scientific Manager: S. Kintzios, Duration:11/12/2003-19/05/2023.

At the REGED, there is 1 faculty member (Dr. Menegaki), 2 postdoctoral researchers, Mr. Panagiotis Skartados and Maria Vidali and 1 administrative employee Mr. Pantelis Smaragdis who work in the framework of this research project.
EU-CONEXUS. Scientific Coordinator: S. C. K. K. C. and E. Miliou, Duration: 01/08/2021-31/08/2022).

At the REGED, there is 1 faculty member (Dr. Menegaki), three PhDs, Mr. Skartados Panagiotis, Mr. Vidali Maria and Mr. Giorgos Economou [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-george-s-ekonomou...] who teach the courses Sustainable Tourism, Climate Change & Tourism, and Entrepreneurship within the framework of this research project.

The faculty members of the REGED department have a recognized academic track record, each in their own area of expertise. Recently, REGED faculty member, Angeliki Menegaki received honorary rankings for two consecutive years on the Professor Ioannidis List (2020) at Stanford University.

Ranked 480th among the 649 Greek researchers in all scientific fields in the Professor Ioannidis List (2020) of Stanford University.

Also, according to the list, she was ranked in the 2% of researchers in her field worldwide. Available from: [https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2] and [https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3000918&fbclid=IwAR1R-mBeOhm28F1zNyEXGPqMswkpcGsZitnvuB480lrYh33QjzDdGXADtVQ]
Ranked 442nd out of 829 Greek researchers of all disciplines in the Professor Ioannidis List (2021) of Stanford University. Also, according to the list ranked in the top 2% of researchers in my discipline worldwide. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/data.../btchxktzyw/3, Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P.A. (2021), "August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"", Mendeley Data, V3, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.3).

-------[2024]-------

Krabokoukis, T., Tsiotas, D., & Polyzos, S. (2024). Assessing the effectiveness of regional development planning in Greece through the detection of changes in recent developmental laws. Planning Practice & Research, 1-21.

Giannakis, E., Tsiotas, D., & Papadas, C. T. (2024). Unveiling the relationship between regional economic resilience and input-output network topology: Evidence from the European Union. Regional Science Policy & Practice, 100018.

Selini Katsaiti, M., Kopinska, J., & Atella, V. (2024). Healthy, Wealthy, and Happy: The Joint Role of Health and Income in Explaining Global Life Satisfaction. Review of Income and Wealth, 70(1), 33-59.

Menegaki, A., & Tiwari, A. K. (2024). Introducing the Sustainability-Hospitality Growth Nexus in Europe; Differences Between Domestic and International Travelers. Differences Between Domestic and International Travelers (March 10, 2024).

Pečiulis, T., Ahmad, N., Menegaki, A. N., & Bibi, A. (2024). Forecasting of cryptocurrencies: Mapping trends, influential sources, and research themes. Journal of Forecasting.

Tiwari, A. K., & Menegaki, A. N. (2024). Editorial special issue: Novel longitudinal data research methods in renewable energy use and management. Renewable Energy, 223, 120019.

Hussain, S. M., Ahmad, N., Fazal, F., & Menegaki, A. N. (2024). The impact of female directorship on firm performance: a systematic literature review. Review of Managerial Science, 18(3), 913-939.

Menegaki, A., & Tugcu, C. T. (2024). Providing an Accelerator for Neutralizing Inequalities Through Tourism Development Across Developed and Developing Countries. Available at SSRN 4717247.

Tugcu, C. T., & Menegaki, A. N. (2024). The impact of renewable energy generation on energy security: Evidence from the G7 countries. Gondwana Research, 125, 253-265.

-------[2023]-------

Adam, A., Garas, A., Katsaiti, M. S., & Lapatinas, A. (2023). Economic complexity and jobs: an empirical analysis. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 32(1), 25-52.

Dimopoulos, T., Genitsaropoulos, C., Menegaki, A. N., Xanthos, G., & Strimpakos, N. (2023). The challenge of balanced regional development: health tourism in the Regional Unity of Fthiotida–a potential instrument of regional and intra-regional inequalities alleviation?. International Journal of Spa and Wellness, 6(2), 263-295.

Ekonomou, G. & Halkos, G. (2023). Is tourism growth a power of environmental 'de -degradation'? An empirical analysis for Eurozone economic space. Economic Analysis and Policy, 77, 1016–1029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.12.029

Ekonomou, G., & Menegaki, A. N. (2023). China in the renewable energy era: What has been done and what remains to Be done. Energies, 16(18), 6696.

Ekonomou, G., & Menegaki, A. N. (2023). The role of the energy use in buildings in front of climate change: Reviewing a system’s challenging future. Energies, 16(17), 6308.

Ekonomou, G., Kallioras, D., Menegaki, A. N., & Alvarez, S. (2023). Tourist Preferences for Revitalizing Wellness Products and Reversing Depopulation in Rural Destinations. Sustainability, 15(24), 16736.

El Anshasy, A. A., Shamsuddin, M., & Katsaiti, M. S. (2023). Financial Wellbeing and International Migration Intentions: Evidence from Global Surveys. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24(7), 2261-2289.

Fiaz, A., Ahmad, N., Al‐Abri, A., Khurshid, N., & Menegaki, A. (2023). Exchange rate misalignment: A systematic literature review based on citation and content analysis. OPEC Energy Review, 47(3), 176-196.

Halkos, G. & Ekonomou, G. (2023). Can business and leisure tourism spending lead to lower environmental degradation levels? research on the eurozone economic space. Sustainability, 15, 6063. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15076063

Kantianis, D., Polyzos, S., Tsiotas, D., (2023) “Modeling the regional variability of building activity in Greece: a multinomial logistic regression approach”, European Spatial Research and Policy (accepted: 26/4/2023).

Karabchuk, T., Katsaiti, M. S., & Johnson, K. A. (2023). Life satisfaction and desire to emigrate: What does the cross‐national analysis show?. International Migration, 61(3), 349-372.

Katsaiti, M. S., & Khraiche, M. (2023). Does access to credit alter migration intentions?. Empirical Economics, 65(4), 1823-1854.

Katsaiti, M.S., & Khraiche, M., (2023) “Does Access to Credit Alter Migration Intentions?”, Empirical Economics, 5:1-32

Koutridi, E., Tsiotas, D., Christopoulou, O., (2023) “Examining the spatial effect of “smartness” on the relationship between agriculture and regional development: the case of Greece”, Land, (12)3, 541 (10.3390/land12030541).

Lapatinas, A., & Katsaiti, M. S. (2023). EU MECI: A Network-Structured Indicator for a Union of Equality. Social Indicators Research, 166(2), 465-483.

Lapatinas, T. & Katsaiti, M.S., (2023) “EU MECI: A network-structured indicator for a Union of equality”, Social Indicators Research, 166(2): 465-83

Menegaki, A. N., & Tiwari, A. K. (2023). Willingness to Pay for New Technologies and Environmental Technologies in Hotels: A Multinomial Logit Approach. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 1-33.

Menegaki, A., & Stylianou, I. (2023). Are younger employees more prone to burnout? A social science approach with sustainability insights. A social science approach with sustainability insights (May 11, 2023).

Mitropoulos, P., Mitropoulos, A., & Vlami, A. (2023). Factors affecting high-quality entrepreneurial performance in small-and medium-sized family firms. Journal of Family Business Management, (ahead-of-print).

Papadimitriou, V., Polyzos, s., Tsiotas, D., (2023) “Project Evaluation using the Real Options Methodology”, Regional Science Inquiry (accepted: 25/4/2023).

Polyzos, S., Tsiotas, D., (2023) “Interregional Transport Infrastructures and Regional Development: A Methodological Approach”, Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 18(2), pp.5-31 (um.ase.ro/no182/1.pdf).

Poutakidou, G., & Menegaki, A. N. (2023). Do Energy Prices Put the Tourism Sector at Risk?. Economies, 11(7), 197.

Stylianou, I., & Menegaki, A. N. (2023). Are younger employees more prone to burnout? Evidence from a survey in Cyprus. International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 9(1), 44-71.

Tasopoulou, T., Tsiotas, D., & Polyzos, S. (2023). Investigating The Interaction Between The Topology Of Bus Transport Networks And Regional Development In Greece. Regional Science Inquiry, 15(2), 25-46.

Tsiotas, D., & Tselios, V. (2023). Dimension Reduction in the Topology of Multilayer Spatial Networks: The Case of the Interregional Commuting in Greece. Networks and Spatial Economics, 23(1), 97-133.

Tsiotas, D., & Tselios, V. (2023). Understanding peripherality in a multidimensional geographical, socioeconomic, and institutional context: Evidence from Greece. Regional Science Policy & Practice, 15(7), 1424-1457.

Tsiotas, D., Dialesiotis, S., & Christopoulou, O. (2023). Examining the relationship between regional economic resilience and epidemiologic spread of COVID-19: evidence from Greece. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-37.

Tsiotas, D., Kantartzis, A., Kolkos, G., Lemonakis, P., & Arabatzis, G. (2023). A modularity total environment network model for sustainable forest transportation. Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, 8(4), 1057-1073.

Tsiotas, D., Makridis, E., & Polyzos, S. (2023). Measuring the effect of covid-19 on the functionality of urban public spaces. Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 18(4), 5-23.

Tsiotas, D., Tselios, V., (2023) “Measuring the Interaction between the Interregional Accessibility and the Geography of Institutions: the case of Greece”, In Storti, L., Urso, G., Reid, N., (Eds.) Economies, institutions, and territories: Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World (The Dynamics of Economic Space), New York, Routledge (doi: 10.4324/9781003191049), pp.269-294.

Tugcu, C. T., & Menegaki, A. N. (2023). Revisiting the impact of renewable energy consumption on economic growth: sectoral evidence from the USA. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(15), 44733-44745.

Vardopoulos, I., Papoui-Evangelou, M., Nosovo, B., & Salvati, L. (2023). Smart ‘tourist cities’ revisited: Culture-led urban sustainability and the global real estate market. Sustainability, 15(5), 4313. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054313.

Vardopoulos, I., Vannas, I., Xydis, G., & Vassiliades, C. (2023). Homeowners’ perceptions of renewable energy and market value of sustainable buildings. Energies, 16(10), 4178. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16104178 

Vlami, A. (2023). Boutique Hotel by HCH: A New Tourism Trademark as a Tool for the Development of Small Hotels. In Sustainable Growth Strategies for Entrepreneurial Venture Tourism and Regional Development (pp. 181-199). IGI Global.

Βλάμη Α., (2023) Boutique Hotels. Διαφοροποίηση προϊόντων της τουριστικής ανάπτυξης. Όψεις μιας νέας μορφής ξενοδοχειακής φιλοξενίας, Αθήνα: Προπομπός, ISBN: 978618-5036-63-8.

Βλάμη Α., (2023) Η Αξιολόγηση των δημόσιων πολιτικών, επενδυτικών και χωρικών, στον Τουρισμό και το αποτύπωμά τους στην εξελικτική πορεία του Ελληνικού Τουρισμού, Συνέδριο Αναζητώντας τον Άλλο Δρόμο: Στρατηγικές για την Ανάπτυξη της Ελληνικής Οικονομίας, 27-29 Ιανουαρίου, Ινστιτούτο Εναλλακτικών Πολιτικών ΕΝΑ και Ινστιτούτο για την Έρευνα και την Κοινωνική Αλλαγή Eteron

Βλάμη, Α. (2023). Η ανθεκτικότητα του ελληνικού τουρισμού και η μετά την κρίση αναδιαρθρώσεις του ξενοδοχειακού κλάδου. Περιφέρεια, (16), 77-107.

Ταμουραντζής Α., (2023), Οικονομική Πολιτική και Διακυβέρνηση στην Ευρωζώνη, Θεσσαλονίκη: Τζιόλα.

-------[2022]-------

Ekonomou G. (2022). Disclosing the unnoticed power of market segments in the tourism growth nexus discussion. Tourism Review International, 26(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.3727/154427221X16317419620264

Kalaitzi, A., Khefri, S., Al-Rousan, S. & Katsaiti, M.S., (2022) “New Evidence on the Export-Led Growth in the UAE: Causality between Non-Primary Exports and Economic Growth”, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 18(1):29-51.

Karabchuk, T., Katsaiti, M.S., & Johnson, K., (2022) “Life Satisfaction and Desire to Emigrate: A Cross-National Analysis of 127 countries”, International Migration, 00:1-24.

Katsaiti, M.S., Kopinska, J., & Atella, V., (2022) “Healthy, Wealthy, and Happy: The Joint Role of Health and Income in Explaining Global Life Satisfaction”, Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12630

Koçak, E., Bulut, U., Menegaki, A.N., (2022). The resilience of green firms in the twirl of COVID-19: Evidence from S&P500 Carbon Efficiency Index with a Fourier approach. Business Strategy and the Environment 31, 32-45, (Impact Factor= 10.302)

Kranioti, A., Tsiotas, D., Polyzos, S., (2022) “The topology of the cultural destinations’ accessibility: the case of Attica, Greece”, Sustainability, 14: 1860 (10.3390/su14031860).

Menegaki, A.N. and Tiwari, A.K. (2022) Indulging Myself to high-tech or Green-ing the Others? Behavioral responses and strategic opportunities for the hospitality sector (August 29, 2022). Available at SSRN: [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4203601]

Menegaki, A.N., (2022). New Technologies in Hotels and Museums: Supply-side Perceptions with Education Implications for Managers and Curators. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 13(4), pp. 2935-2956 (Impact Factor=2.130)

Menegaki, A.N., (2022) A Note on Contemplating Sustainable Functions in New Economics: What Have We Learned so Far About Sustainability? (December 15, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4304385 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4304385

Menegaki, A.N., Tiwari, A.K., (2022). The stability of interaction channels between tourism and financial development in 10 top tourism destinations: Evidence from a Fourier Toda-Yamamoto estimator. Tourism Economics, 28(7), pp. 1914-1942 (Impact Factor= 3.550)

Menegaki, A.N., Tsounis, N., Agiomirgianakis, G.M., (2022). The economic impact of climate change (CC) on the Greek economy. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 24(6), pp. 8145-8161 (Impact Factor=3.219)

Naveed, A., Aghdam, R., Ahmed, N., Menegaki, A.N. (2022). What have we learned from Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis? A citation-based systematic literature review and content analysis Energy Strategy Reviews, Energy Strategy Reviews, 44,100946 (Impact Factor= 10.010)

Sdrolias, L., Semos, A., Mattas, K., Tsakiridou, E., Michailides, A., Partalidou, M., Tsiotas, D., (2022) “Assessing the agricultural sector’s resilience to the 2008 economic crisis: The case of Greece”, Agriculture, 12: 174 (10.3390/agriculture12020174).

Shamsuddin, M., El Anshasy A., & Katsaiti, M.S., (2022) “Relative Deprivation and International Migration Intentions: Examining a New Class of Proximity-Sensitive Measures”, Migration Letters, 19(6), 833-841.

Shamsuddin, M., Katsaiti, M.S., & El Anshasy, A., (2022) “Income rank and Income Concerns: What Correlates with International Migration Intentions?”, Economic Analysis and Policy, 75, 490-505.

Tamourantzis A., (2022), "The Macroeconomic and Social imbalances in the Eurozone in the period of Economic Crisis (2008 - 2014)", ICBE - HOU 2022

Tsiotas, D., (2022) “A network-based algorithm for computing Keynesian income multipliers in multiregional systems”, Regional Science Inquiry, 14(2), pp.25-46 (rsijournal.eu/?p=4306).

Tsiotas, D., Axelis, N., Polyzos, S., (2022) “Detecting city-dipoles in Greece based on intercity commuting”, Regional Science Inquiry, 14(1), pp.11-30 (rsijournal.eu/?p=4266).

Tsiotas, D., Tselios, V., (2022) “Decomposing the complexity of interregional commuting: a multilayer network approach”, Networks and Spatial Economics, (10.1007/s11067-022-09578-5).

Tsiotas, D., Tselios, V., (2022) “Understanding the uneven spread of COVID-19 in the context of the global interconnected economy”, Scientific Reports, 12: 666 (10.1038/s41598-021-04717-3).

Αγιομυργιανάκης, Γ.Μ., Μαρκάκη, Μ., Μουδάτσου, Α. και Μενεγάκη, A.M. (2022). Επιστημονική επιμέλεια μετάφρασης βιβλίου “Εισαγωγή στην Μαθηματική Ανάλυση”, Haeussler, E., Paul, R., Wood, R., Εκδόσεις Gutenberg

Μακρίδης, Ε., Τσιώτας, Δ., Πολύζος, Σ., (2022) “Αξιολόγηση της επάρκειας αστικών δημόσιων χώρων ψυχαγωγίας για κάλυψη συνθηκών έκτακτης ανάγκης: Μελέτη περίπτωσης του δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης”, 6^ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Πολεοδομίας, Χωροταξίας & Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης, Βόλος, 29/9-02/10/2022.

Στεργίου, Δ. Αγιομυργιανάκης, Γ.Μ. και Μενεγάκη, A.M. (2022). Επιστημονική επιμέλεια μετάφρασης βιβλίου “Διαχείριση κρίσεων στον Τουρισμό”, Pforr, Ch., Hosie, P., Εκδόσεις Gutenberg

Τσιώτας, Δ., Διαλεσιώτης, Σ., Χριστοπούλου, Ό., (2022) “Μελέτη της σχέσης μεταξύ της οικονομικής ανθεκτικότητας και του βαθμού εξάπλωσης της πανδημίας COVID-19 στις περιφέρειες της Ελλάδας”, 6^ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Πολεοδομίας, Χωροταξίας & Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης, Βόλος, 29/9-02/10/2022.

The faculty members of the REGED department have published numerous books in Greek or English in publishing houses in Greece and abroad. They are also members of Editorial Boards of international journals as well as Guest Editors in special volumes of international journals.

JOURNAL FOUNDATION

International Journal of the Energy-Growth Nexus, Inderscience Publications, Editor in Chief: Prof. Angeliki N. Menegaki, ISSN online: 2753-7617, ISSN print: 2753-7609 (https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijegn)