Kornélia Kiss (PhD) is an associate professor and the head of the Department of Tourism at Corvinus University of Budapest. Before the academia she worked as a junior consultant for Horwath International HTL. From 2000 till 2013 she worked for the Hungarian National Tourist Office, first as a senior researcher, from 2004 as the head of the Research Department. She obtained her PhD from Regional Studies at Szent István University. Her research interests include different aspects of quality of life and well-being with a special focus on leisure, sport and the elderly, and tourism marketing with a focus on consumer behavior.