Budapest University of Economics and Business

Dr Kornélia Kiss joined the team of the Budapest University of Economics and Business in 2022 as Head of the Department of Tourism.
She obtained her MA-degree in Economics at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, specialising in marketing and tourism. She earned her PhD at the György Enyedi Doctoral School of Regional Sciences of Szent István University. She began her professional career at the tourism and hospitality consulting firms LT Consorg and Horwath Consulting. Between 2000 and 2013 she worked for the Hungarian National Tourist Office, where she was involved in research and product management: first as Senior Researcher, later as Director of Research, and subsequently as Head of a department integrating research, product development and communication.
The world of higher education has always been close to her interests. During her university years she worked as a demonstrator in the Tourism Research Group. Between 2000 and 2013 she taught as a part-time lecturer, and since 2013 she has been working as a full-time academic. Her teaching portfolio includes courses delivered in bachelor’s and master’s programmes, as well as in higher vocational and postgraduate specialist training programmes. Her research focuses primarily on leisure and tourism consumer behaviour and on the relationship between tourism and well-being.
She considers talent development an important professional mission. She is actively involved in the work of the National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference (TDK) as a mentor, reviewer and jury member. She has also served as supervisor or co-supervisor for several doctoral students.
Between 2000 and 2004 she served as editor of the professional and academic journal Turizmus Bulletin, and between 2004 and 2010 as its Editor-in-Chief. Between 2019 and 2024 she was a member of the Sports, Tourism and Hospitality Committee of the Hungarikum Committee, and between 2020 and 2024 she also contributed to the work of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee. Since 2024 she has represented higher education in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector Skills Council.
As Dean of the Faculty of International Management at Budapest Business University, her goal is to educate open-minded, internationally oriented and responsible professionals across the Faculty’s five bachelor’s and four master’s programmes who understand the social, cultural and environmental implications of economic decisions and contribute through their knowledge to a more sustainable and human-centred economy.