Dora Smolčić Jurdana

Dora Smolčić Jurdana is a tenured professor and head of Institute of tourism and marketing at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija, University of Rijeka.

She has published more than 100 scientific papers and has participated in numerous conferences, thematically related to tourism. As an active researcher, she has worked on 6 scientific projects. Additionally, Dora Smolčić Jurdana has been involved as the project manager or team member in preparing more than forty professional projects and nine EU projects, transferring theoretical knowledge into practice. The most important areas of her scientific and professional interest are strategic planning in tourism, sustainable tourism development, economic and social aspects of tourism.

During her career, she was a dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2014-2020), assistant rector of the University of Rijeka (2017-2021), external member of the Tourism Committee of the Croatian Parliament for two terms (2012-2015 and 2017-2020), vice president for technological development and innovation of the Scientific field committees for Economics at the Agency for Science and Higher Education, and for a number of years she led the doctoral study "Management of Sustainable Development".