Barbara is proud of a number of achievements in her career so far, including:

Experience in research, European projects, teaching, accreditation, curriculum design, conference organisation, academic and industry presentations Speaker at academic conferences and industry events around the globe Academic advisor for students in the area of eTourism Well-established global network with academia and industry in the field of tourism Co-organisation and co-chair of more than five international conferences and workshops Project leader of the Austrian re-accreditation process of the BA in Innovation and Management in Tourism, University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria 2nd Prize for Best PhD Proposal at ENTER2012 Election as the youngest board member of the International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism (IFITT) in January 2013. Award ITT PhD Student of the Year 2013