Ioseb Khelashvili is the Head of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2016–Now). Education: Tbilisi State University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, undergraduate (1975-1980); Institute of Geography, USSR Academy of Sciences post-graduate (Moscow, Russia 1980-1983); Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School (2001). He defended a dissertation on the Principals and Methods of Evaluation of Recreational Resources (in the case of Georgia) and acquired a PhD equivalent degree (1984). He worked at the USA Embassy in Georgia as a Foreign Commercial Service Advisor (Georgia, 1993-1996) and continued as an economic advisor at the Georgian Embassy in the USA (Washington, DC, USA, 1997-2000). He founded and managed a private consulting company—Kamara Consulting Ltd. He is the author of 30 scientific tourism-related articles and two handbooks. He is a member of the International Association of Experts in Tourism; the Georgian Academy of Business Sciences in Tbilisi, Georgia; the Georgian Geographical Society; several editorial boards of scientific journals related to business, economy, and geography, including MDPI, the Journal of Economics and Business at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, etc. He currently manages several tourism and hospitality-related MBA, PhD, and BA programs at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.