2011-         Assistant Professor & Academic coordinator. The Tourist Guide Diploma Programme. Department of Environmental, Spatial and Social Change. Roskilde University  

2005-2010  Ph.D student & Coordinator at the Tourist Guide Diploma Programme.Department of Environmental, Spatial and Social Change Roskilde University

2003-2004 Coordinator at the Tourist Guide Diploma Programme. Department of Geography and International Development Studies. Roskilde University

2002-2003  Tutor and guestlecturer at The Tourist Guide Diploma Programme.

1999-2001 Hotel Manager Hotel Christian IV,  Arp Hansen Hotel Group  

1994-1995 Conference Organiser. "Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Social Development.  Christiansborg Castle. Copenhagen.

1993-1998   Assisted in opening and running private family business; Restaurant Côte de Boeuf from 1993, Restaurant Vingården from 1996

1987-1992   Teacher at The Danish School for Tour Managers. 

1988-1991   Tourmanager Crownline. American groups on roundtrips in Scandinavia. USSR and Eastern Europe 

1986-1988   Tourmanager, Viking Nordturist. Danish Groups primarily to Italy, but also Austria/Hungary and Germany

1986-1988   Skiguide, Yugotours. Danish/ Swedish tourists in Kranjska Gora; Slovenia.

1983-2009  Authorised guide in Italian and English in Copenhagen/Denmark 

Education

2010. Ph.D in Social Science. Titel of dissertaion  “The Guided Tour – A Co-Produced Tourism Performance”

1999   M.Sc. in International Business Administration and Modern Languages. Copenhagen Business School. Titel of master thesis "Institutionalisation of Tourism as Regional Development Strategy - the Case of EU-supported Tourist Programmes at Lolland"

1990   1 year GCSE from Lyngby Business School

1989   Cour de Langue Francaise, Université de Savoie, Annecy, France

1986   Tourmanager. The Danish Tourmanger School 

1984   Authorised Guide in English and Italian. The Tourist Guide Association

1982   Italian laguage and litterature. Universitá per Stranieri, Perugia. Italy 

1979   GCSE in laguages and social sience. Efterslægtens Gymnasium.

In the Ph.d thesis "The Guided Tour - An Intercultural Co-produced Tourism Experience". I apply a constuctivist, processual and performance oriented approach when exploring the strategies and tactics adopted and developped by tourists and guides on guided tours. I have focus on interactions and how the interactions influence the production of the tourism experience. I use video in my field work. My present research project is a qualitative comparative exploration of guides´working life in an range of European countries; Denmark, Italy and France with focus on career path, status/recognition and gender. teaching

Intercultural communication and cultural mediation in tourism. Lecturer and tutor in connection with pilote projects at Tourist Guide Diploma Programme.

Education

Cultural mediation in practice in various spatial contexts. Lecturer and tutor on connection with final diploma project at The Tourist Guide Diploma Progamme.  

Lectures departing from my Ph.D project "The Guided Tour - An Intercultural Co-produced Tourism Experience"; To create experiences in interaction; Innovation and product development in guided tours; New technologies - a threat or opportunity in interpersonal experience production; The negiotiated City - between tourists and Copehageners

Tutoring projects at Geography. 

My research areas are tourism, performance, experiences and working life for the front personnel in the experience economy.