Birgit Zotz

Birgit Zotz ( born August 7, 1979 in Waidhofen an der Thaya ) is an Austrian cultural anthropologist, tourism researcher and writer of property and textbooks.

Life and work

Training

Zotz was born Birgit Hutter. She grew up in Loibes, attended since 1993, the Music High School Vienna and studied from 1993 to 1997 at the Franz Schubert Conservatory instrument saxophone. She completed studies of tourism science at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and ethnology at the University of Vienna. She concluded with these studies from over tourism development in Tibet (2008) and on Tibetan oracle priests (2010).

Activities

Birgit Zotz deals as a tourism researcher with the image of tourist destinations and as an ethnologist with Buddhist themes. Here is one of her research focuses on the interaction of Lama Anagarika Govinda and emanating from it movement.

She is president of intercultural institution Komyoji, Member of the Board of the Cultural publisher Kairos Edition in Luxembourg and lecturer at the International College of Tourism and Management in Bad Vöslau. Birgit Zotz is also editor of the journal Damaru. As the wife of the philosopher Volker Zotz it is, as of this writing, involved in the creation of his works.

Works

  • Destination Tibet. Tourist Image of politics and cliché. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-4948-7.
  • The Waldviertel - Between mysticism and clarity. The image of a region as a tourist destination. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89574-734-2.
  • The image of Tibet as a tourist destination in the mirror of German media. Linz 2008.
  • Birgit Hutter: The Image of the Waldviertel region as a tourist destination. Vienna 2006.

Pictures of Birgit Zotz

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