Charisia Vlachou is a Lecturer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a PhD in entrepreneurship in rural areas. Her research interests include gastronomy tourism, agri-food and tourism, entrepreneurship especially in rural areas, women's entrepreneurship, and tourism destination marketing. For the last 5 years she has been teaching the course "Agri-Food and Gastronomic Tourism" as well as "Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Tourism".