Anat Tchetchik

Movember 2016

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Personal Details

Name: Anat Tchetchik

Citizenship: Israeli, EU

Regular military service: two years, Intelligence corps (8200 unit).

Address and phone number at work: Department of Business Administration,

Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev, Beer-Sheva (BGU) Israel, 84105. Tel: 972-8-6477935.

Address and phone number at home: 20 Mivza-Kadesh St. Tel-Aviv, 972-3-6477442.

Education

B.Sc. 1992, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Environmental Economics

and Management, (Magna Cum laude, Dean's list).

M.Sc. 1996, HUJI, Environmental Economics and Management, (Magna Cum

laude). Advisor: Prof. Israel Finkelshtain. Thesis title: Approaches toward Finance

and the Incentives System.

Ph.D. 2007, HUJI, Environmental Economics and Management. Advisors: Prof.

Israel Finkelshtain and Prof. Aliza Fleischer. Dissertation title: Rural Tourism in

Israel; Structure, Analysis and Policy Implications.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 2009, HUJI, Environmental Economics and

Management. Supervisor: Prof. Eli Feinerman. Subject: Impact of Counter-

Urbanization on Size, Population Mix and Welfare of an Agricultural Region.

* The department of Environmental Economics and Management was previously the department of

Agricultural Economics and Management.

Employment

April 2013-present. Lecturer (tenure track), the department of Business

Administration, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU.

September 2008 –March 2013. Lecturer (tenure track), the department of Hotel and

Tourism Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU.

May 2008- August 2008. External teacher, the department of Hotel and Tourism

Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU.

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Professional Activities

(a) Positions in academic administration

November 2015- March 2016. Member of an ad-hoc committee to evaluate

students’ admission in the department of Business Administration BGU.

2011- 2013. Representative at the faculty’s committee of graduate students, on behalf

of the department of Hotel and Tourism Management, BGU.

2011- 2013. Representative at the faculty teaching committee, on behalf of the

department of Hotel and Tourism Management, BGU.

2011- 2013. Head of the teaching committee for graduate students. The department

of Hotel and Tourism Management, BGU.

2010- 2013. Head of the seminar committee. The department of Hotel and Tourism

Management, BGU.

(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions

(1) 2013-2015. Researcher-SPREE (Servicizing Policy for Resource Efficient

Economy) FP7 project, a three-year project within the environment theme

under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program.

http://www.spreeproject.com/researchers/?lang=he

(2) 2015-present. Member, Inspection Committee, Regional Science

Association International- the Israeli Section.

(c) Significant professional consulting

2005. Elal Israeli Airways. Economic consultancy for: evaluating the potential

contribution of the tourism industry to Israel’s economy.

2005. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development: rural tourism in Israel

survey for the year 2004.

1998. The Weizmann Institute for Science, YEDA research and development

company Ltd. Economic consultancy for: evaluating the economic contribution of

the Weizmann Institute to the Israeli economy.

(d) Ad-hoc reviewer for journals

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Journal of Cleaner Production

Tourism Geographies

Sustainability

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Journal of Air Transport Management

European Review of Agriculture Economics

Tourism Management

Tourism Management Perspective

Current Issues in Tourism

International Journal of Tourism Policy

International Journal of Tourism Research

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Annals of Tourism Research

(e) Membership in professional/scientific societies

October 2016- present. Member of BGU ‘Green Council’

Educational activities

(a) Courses taught

Management Economics for Tourism and Hospitality, undergraduate, BGU.

Introductory Microeconomics, undergraduate, BGU.

Introductory Macroeconomics, undergraduate, BGU.

Issues in Tourism Economics, graduate, BGU.

Forecasting Methods, graduate level, BGU.

International Marketing, graduate level, BGU.

Service Marketing, graduate level, BGU.

(b) Research students

(1) Rotem Izac, M.Sc., Porter School, TAU, jointly with Dr. Vered Blass. (completed

November 2015, with distinction)

(2) Liat Zvi, M.Sc., Porter School, TAU, jointly with Dr. Vered Blass (submitted for

judgment).

(3) Ben Dagani, M.Sc., Porter School, TAU, jointly with Dr. Daniel Mishori.

(4) Adi Galor, MBA, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU,

jointly with Dr. Mosi Rosenboim.

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(5) Yoav Buxboim, PhD, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, BGU,

jointly with Dr. Mosi Rosenboim.

(6) Elena Gregorian, M.Sc., Porter School, TAU, thesis proposal approved.

• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships

(a) Honors, Citation Awards

1994. HUJI, Yaakov Gal excellence scholarship (NIS 3,000)

2002. Rupin Academic Center. Oshi Friedman prize for excellence (NIS 5,000).

2002-2005, HUJI. Horowitz fund: an excellence scholarship for research students

(NIS 250,000).

2007-2009. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, HUJI (NIS 160,000)

2009. the Israeli section of the European Regional Science Association. Stan

Czamanski prize for an outstanding scholarship by a young scholars (NIS 1,000).

• Scientific Publications

GS- H-Index: 7, total citations: 424, total citations without self-citations: 420.

ISI- H-index: 4, total citations: 100, total citations without self-citations: 96.

(c) Chapters in collective volumes

1. *Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain (2009), On-Farm Non-

Agricultural Labor: On the Development of Rural Tourism in Western Countries, in

The Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture, Kimhi, A and I.

Finkelshtain eds. Springer, pp. 305-331.

2. *Tchetchik, A. (2010). The Economics of The Rural Tourism Industry in Israel

Critical Discussion, in Devesh Nigam ed. Rural Tourism, Shree Publishers &

Distributors, New Delhi, August, pp. 41-52.

3. *Tchetchik, A. (2014). Is Rural Tourism Industry in Israel Rural? In Israeli Life

and Leisure in the 21st Century, Leitner M. and Leitner S. eds., Sagamore

Publishing, Urbana IL, USA, pp. 316-321.

(d) Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals

1. FleischerPI, A. and A. TchetchikS. Does Rural Tourism Benefit from

Agriculture. Tourism Management, 26(4): 493-501. [281 citations; IF (GS); 66

citations (ISI); IF: 3.762; ABDC Rank: A+; 3/43; Q1].

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2. TchetchikPI, A., FleischerPI, A. and I. FinkelshtainPI. 2008. Differentiation and

Synergies in Rural Tourism: Estimation and Simulation of the Israeli Market,

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90(2): 553-570. [29

citations(GS); 6 citations (ISI); IF 1.701; ABDC Rank: A+; 2/17; Q1].

3. * TchetchikPI, A., FleischerPI, A. and N. ShovalPI. 2009. Segmentation of

Visitors to a Site Using High Resolution Time-Space Data, Journal of Travel

Research, 48:216-229. [36 citations (GS); 16 citations (ISI); IF 3.194; ABDC

Rank: A+; 4/43, Q1].

4. *Tchetchik, A. 2010. Internalizing Externalities under Joint Production of

Rural Tourism and Agriculture –A Conceptual Framework, Asian Journal of

Tourism and Hospitality Research, 4(1): 1-15. [ABDC Rank: C: IF: N/A].

5. * FeinermanPI, E., FinkelshtainPI, I. TchetchikPD, A. and M. Delgos. 2011. Impact

of Counter-Urbanization on Size, Population Mix and Welfare of an Agricultural

Region, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93 (4): 1032-1047. [4

citations (GS); 1 citations (ISI); IF 1.701; ABDC Rank: A+; 2/17; Q1].

6. * TchetchikPI, A., FleischerPI, A. and I. FinkelshtainPI. 2012. An Optimal Size for

Rural Tourism Villages with Agglomeration and Congestion Effects. European

Review of Agricultural Economics, 39 (4):685-706. [4 citations (GS); 1 citations

(ISI); IF 1.887; ABDC Rank: A; 4/17; Q1].

7. * FleischerPI, A., TchetchikPI, A. and T. ToledoPI. 2012. The Impact of Fear of

Flying on Travelers' Flight Choice—Choice Model with Latent Variables. Journal

of Travel Research, 51 (5): 653–663. [13 citations (GS); 7 citations (ISI); IF 3.194;

ABDC Rank: A+; 4/43; Q1].

8. * FleischerPI, A., TchetchikPI, A. and T. ToledoPI. 2015. Does it Pay to Reveal

Safety Information? The Effect of Safety Information on Flight Choice.

Transportation Research Part C, 56: 210-220. (All authors contributed equally.

4 citations (GS); 1 citations (ISI); IF 3.402. ABDC Rank: A; 5/33; Q1].

9. * TchetchikPI, A, GrinsteinPI, A., ManesPI, E., ShapiraPI D. and R. DurstPI.

2015. Counting Articles or Impact? When Does Academic Research Provide

more Value to Society, Plos One, 10 (6): 1-16. [4 citations (GS); 2 citations

(ISI); IF 3.702, 9/57, Q1].

10. * TchetchikPI, A. 2015. Do Communication Technologies and Immigration

Induced Travel Flows Complement or Compete? Letters in Spatial and Resource

Sciences, 8: 335-356. (Pending IF, publisher: Springer).

11. * TangS, C.M.V., *TchetchikCI, A. and E. CohenPI. 2015. Perception of Wine

Labels by Hong Kong Chinese Consumers. Journal of Wine Economics and

Policy, 4: 12-21 [7 citations (GS), IF 1.069, unranked).

12. * TchetchikPI. A. KaufmannPI, D. and V. BlassPI. 2016. Perceived Scarcity,

Habits, Environmental Attitudes, and Price Sensitivity: How do They Interact

with Preferences towards Greywater Systems? Built Environment ,42(2): 273-

293.

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13. *KaufmannPI, D., TchetchikPI, A. and L. Hayoon-DavidovS. 2016. Factors

Influencing the Adoption of Greywater in Israel. Built Environment, 42(2):

258-272(15).

(e) Published scientific reports and technical papers

1. Fleischer, A., and Tchetchik, A. 2002. Is agriculture an important component of

rural tourism? Department of Environmental Economics and Management, HUJI [7

citations GS]

2. Fleischer, A., Engel, Y.A., and A. Tchetchik, 2005.Rural tourism in Israel 2004,

HUJI.

3. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2006. Rural Tourism:

Development, Public Intervention and Lessons from the Israeli Experience, the

Center for Agricultural Economic Research, the Department of Environmental

Economics and Management, HUJI [34 citations GS]

4. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2006. Differentiation &

Synergies in Rural Tourism: Evidence from Israel, the Center for Agricultural

Economic Research, the Department of Environmental Economics and

Management, HUJI [1 citations GS]

5. Tchetchik, A. Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2006. Rural Tourism- a

Worldwide Review Focusing on the Israeli Case, the Center for Agricultural

Economic Research, the Department of Environmental Economics and

Management, HUJI.

6. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2010. An Optimal Size for

Rural Tourism Villages with Agglomeration and Club-Good Effects, the Center

for Agricultural Economic Research, the Department of Environmental

Economics and Management, HUJI.

Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars

(b) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings (oral or poster)

1. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2005. Differentiation and

Synergy in Rural Tourism: Evidence from Israel. The Israeli branch of the

International Regional Science Association (RSAI), Haifa University.

2. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A, and I. Finkelshtain, 2007. Differentiation &

Synergies in Rural Tourism: Evidence from Israel. European Regional Science

Association, (ERSA), Paris, France.

3. Tchetchik, A. Fleischer A. and N. Shoval, 2008. Tourist Segmentation Using

GPS Device in the Old City of Acre. The Israeli Academic Tourism Forum,

(IATF), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

4. Tchetchik, A. Fleischer A. and N. Shoval, 2008. Segmentation of Visitors to a

Heritage Site Using High Resolution Time-Space Data. Brigham Young University, a

conference on Heritage and Cultural Tourism, Jerusalem, Israel.

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5. Tchetchik, A. and A. Fleischer, 2009. Agglomeration and Spatial Density in the

Rural Accommodations Industry, Leisure Studies Association (LSA) Conference,

Canterbury Christ Church University, Department of Sport Science, Tourism and

Leisure, Canterbury, UK.

6. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2010. An Optimal Size for Rural

Tourism Villages with Agglomeration and Club Good Effects. The Israeli branch

of the International Regional Science Association (RSAI), Tel Aviv University.

7. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2010. Agglomeration and Club

Good in the Rural Accommodations Industry. International Geographical Union,

the Israeli National Committee for Geography, the IGU Regional Conference.

Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World, Tel-Aviv, July 2010.

8. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2010. Agglomeration and Club-

Good Effects in the Rural Accommodations Industry. The 50th European

Congress of the European Regional Science Association, ERSA, Sustainable

Regional Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy, Jonkoping,

Sweden.

9. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A., and I. Finkelshtain, 2011. Agglomeration and

Optimal Spatial Density of the Rural Accommodations Industry. The Center for

Agricultural Economic Research and the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies

Authority for Research and Development. Emerging Issues in Agricultural

Economics - Farms and Farming People: Structure and Connections to Food

Security and Rural Communities An International Workshop, Rehovot, Israel.

10. Fleischer, A., Tchetchik, A. and T. Toledo, 2011. The Impact of Fear of Flying

on Flight Choice –Choice Model with Latent Variables. The 3rd Conference of

the International Association for Tourism Economics (IATE), Bournemouth

University, United Kingdom.

11. Manes, E., Shetrit, M.P. and A. Tchetchik, 2012. The Median Voter

Hypothesis Revisited: A Theory of Inflation Tax Evasion & the Demand for

Redistribution. The 26th European Society for Population Economics

conference (ESPE), University of Bern, Switzerland.

12. Manes, E., Tchetchik, A. and A. Fleischer, 2012. The demand and supply for

information in the online marketplace of reviews: theory and evidence from the

hotel industry. Leisure, Living, Learning, Education in Sport, Tourism and the

Outdoors Annual International Conference of the Leisure Studies Association,

hosted by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

13. Tchetchik, A. 2013. Do communication technologies and VFR tourism

complement or compete with each other? Think Tank: Re-conceptualizing Visiting

Friends & Relatives (VFR) Travel. University of Surrey, Guilford, UK.

14. Tchetchik, A. 2013. Do communication technologies and VFR tourism

complement or compete with each other? The Israeli- Dutch section of the EU

regional science. University of Groningen, the Netherland.

15. Tchetchik, A., Grinstein, A., Manes, E. Shapira, D. and R. Durst, 2014. Does

High-Volume Research Productivity Contribute to Clinical Excellence? The

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International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) International Conference for

Academic Disciplines Ca' Foscari University, Italy.

16. Tchetchik, A., Fleischer, A. and I. Finkelshtain, 2014. To Compete or Cooperate?

Exploring New Opportunities and Analytical Framework for Rural Tourism. The

14th European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Congress,

Ljubljana, Slovenia.

17. Fleischer, A. Tchetchik, A., Barnahum Z. and E., Talev. 2016. Consumer

Preferences towards Rural and Agricultural Attractions a Discrete-Choice, Nested-

Logit Approach. 56th European Congress of the European Regional Science

Association (ERSA), Vienna, Austria. 23-26 August 2016.

18. Tchetchik A., Biran, A. and E., Eichhorn. 2016, “Not on my vacation”: service

encounters between able-bodied and disabled consumers- the case of hotel vacation.

ISTO World Congress “Driving Tourism through inclusion” related activities

Zagreb, Croatia. 18-21, October 2016.

(c) Presentations at informal international seminars and workshops

1. Tchetchik, A. 2015. Workshop 6 FP7 Project SPREE, March 19th-20th, 2015.

Presenting the Israeli water case study results, Oxford University, the UK.

2. Tchetchik, A. 2014. Workshop 5 FP7 Project SPREE, September 29th - October

1st, 2014. Presenting the UK transportation case study results, University of

Santiago De-Compostela, Spain.

3. Tchetchik, A. 2016. EPSRC Balance Network: Digital work-life-balance: ‘Going

off the grid’: Can employees really switch off during travel?" 9th March, 2016,

Bournemouth University, the UK.

(d) Seminar presentations at Universities and other institutions

1. 2007. The Economy of Rural Tourism in Israel. The Moshavim Movement

2. 2009. Differentiation and Synergies in Rural Tourism, Evidences from Israel. The

Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

3. 2009. Differentiation and Synergies in Rural Tourism, Evidences from Israel.

Wingate Institute.

4. 2016. Tourism Management and Society - Tourism economics. Faculty of

Management, Bournemouth University, the UK.

5. 2016. The Effect of Fear of Flying and Safety Information on Flight Choice. The

department of Industrial Engineering, BGU.

Research Grants

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1. 2017-2018 Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. Agriculture areas

as ecological corridors: exploring the ecological and economic implication of different

planning and management scenarios in “Harod” valley as a case study. With Dr. Assaf

Shwartz, Prof. Yohay Carmel (the Technion) Dr. Michal Segoli (BGU) and Dr. Ittai

Renan (TAU). Granted for one year. Total amount $45,000

2. 2019-2017 . The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Consumer Preferences for Electronic

Waste Collection with D. Vered Blass (TAU). Granted for two years, annual budget $

50,000 (total budget $ 100,000).

3. 2017-2010. EU project, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Transition from Linear

to Circular: Policy and Innovation, with partners from Israel, Germany, UK, Holland,

France, Spain, Malta, Poland and Belgium. Granted for three years, annual budget

€1,000,000, total amount €3,000,000 (BGU share €240,000).

4. 2016, Nekudat-Hen, The cost-benefit ratio of marginal fields interface in Harod

Valley. With Dr. Michal Segoli (BGU) Hila Serge, Dr. Assaf Schwartz, A. and Prof.

Yohay Carmel (Technion). Granted for one year, annual budget $22,000, total amount

$22,000.

5. 2013-2015. Excellence center for the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, Socio-

Economic Changes in the Rural Hemisphere in a Period of Changes in Agricultural

Policy, with researchers from the HUJI, BIU and TAU. Granted for three years, annual

budget $143,000, total amount $429,000.

6. 2015. Nekudat-Hen, Interaction and simultaneously between use of Information

Resources, Environmental Attitudes and the Adoption of Practices by Farmers. With

Dr. Blass. granted for one year, annual budget $18,000, total amount $18,000.

7. 2012-2015. Chief Scientist, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, Ecological and

Economic Impacts of Recreational Fishing in the Mediterranean Basin, with Prof.

Yehuda Benayahu. Granted for three years, annual budget $36,000, total amount

$108,000.

8. 2009-2010. Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, Regulation and

Support Policies in the Rural Tourism Industry in Israel. With Prof. Fleischer, A. and

Prof. Finkelshtain. Granted for two years, annual budget, $21,500, total amount

$43,000.

Present Academic Activities

Articles under revision

(1) A New Look at the Spending-Performance Nexus - An Empirical Study of U.S.

Hospitals, with Manes, E., Tobol and Chodick, G., under review with

Health Policy

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(2) Dispersed Social Networks, Communication Technologies and Personal

Encounters, the Case of Overseas Friends. With L. Gafter. Under review

with Tourism Management

Research in progress

(3) The Role of Electronic Word of Mouth in Reducing Information Asymmetries

in the Online Hotel Industry: An Empirical Investigation.

(4) The Effect of Massage Framing on the Willingness to Engage in Pro-

Environmental Behavior, with Axelrad, G. and B. Barak.

(5) The Diffusion of Electric Vehicles: Challenging Rogers Model of Innovation

Diffusion. With Zvi, L. and V. Blass.

(6) Eliciting Consumer Preferences towards a New Recycling Activity: the

Tradeoff between Effort and Price. With Steiner, R. and V. Blass.

(7) The Behavior of the size of the Shadow Economy, a Dynamic Panel Approach,

with Manes, E. and Prof. Friedrich Schneider.

(8) The Effect of Massage Framing on Consumers’ Willingness to Engage in E-

waste Recycling, with Blass, V., Grienstein, A. and A. Kronrod.

(9) Consumer Preferences towards Rural Attractions a Discrete-Choice, Nested-

Logit Approach, with Talev E., Barnahum Z. and A .Fleischer.

Additional Information

1. Participation in "Human factors in teams", 2010, the 4th workshop of

CREATE, a Marie Curie (EU) series of events that is focused on developing

young researchers' competencies tied to working in large European projects, as

well as their competencies in social networking and relation building at an

international level, May 26th- June 2nd Trondheim, Norway.

2. Workshop in “Advances in Discrete Choice Models and Experimental Design for

Stated Choice Data in Energy and Environmental Resources” by the Centre for the

Study of Choice at the University of Technology in Sydney and the University of

Padua, Italy, 2011.

3. Stata Elements course, Subotnick Financial Services Center, Zicklin School of

Business - Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY, 2013.

4. Initiated and hosted high-profile visits of world-famous researchers (Professor

Friedrich Schneider). This visit was financed by the competitive President fund

for the invitation of world-famous researchers. October 2016.