News from MU
January 29, 2015
MU donates to help Syrian refugees
L-R: Michael Opriesnig, Deputy Secretary General of the Austrian Red Cross, MSc Student Elena Zepharovich, Harvey Goldstein, Vice-President of MODUL University Vienna In keeping up with MU’s commitment to helping others and...
January 26, 2015
'World travel' at Vienna's largest tourism fair
Vienna’s annual tourism fair „Ferienmesse“ Vienna is a hot destination for holiday seekers throughout the city and surrounding areas – and a great place to see the industry in action. A large group of MU bachelor and master...
January 22, 2015
Harvey Goldstein elected Chair of Fulbright Austrian-American Educational Commission Board
A longtime proponent of Austrian and American academic exchange, Prof. Harvey Goldstein, Vice President of MODUL University, has been elected as the chair of the Fulbright Austrian-American Educational Commission Board for the...
January 19, 2015
Using social media for tourism research
Using the social media photography site Flickr to gather data, Irem Önder of the Department of Tourism and Service Management and Alexander Hubmann-Haidvogel of the Department of New Media Technology, along with Wolfgang Koerbitz...
January 15, 2015
A visit to Vienna's first 'Smart City'
‘’Smart city is the new ‘buzzword’’ says Prof. Sabine Sedlacek of the Department of Public Governance and Sustainable Development, ‘’but it also has benefits in terms of the environment and sustainability, because cities...
January 13, 2015
Furthering TourMIS at ERSA Barcelona
As part of a busy end to 2014, MU President Karl Wöber was invited to be the Keynote Speaker at the 2014 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics at the University of Barcelona. Organized by the AQR research group, the...
January 08, 2015
Repositioning destinations: Mission impossible?
MU’s Prof. Andreas Zins recently won accolades at the 5th Destination Branding and Marketing Conference in Macau, the biannual forum for ‘practitioners and thinkers of destination branding and marketing’. He claimed one of the...
