Prof. Andrea Saayman

Andrea Saayman is professor of Economics at the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa, and a visiting professor in Tourism Macroeconomics for the International Masters programme offered by the University of Bologna, Italy. She is an applied econometrician, and her research interests are in the fields of Tourism Economics and Forecasting, as well as environmental valuation and sustainability.  Her list of publications is extensive, with more than 90 peer-reviewed articles published in international research journals. 

She is currently the President of the International Association for Tourism Economics and the Vice-Chair of the Tourism and Hospitality Section of the International Institute of Forecasters (IFF). She is on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Economics and Journal of Sustainable Tourism.  She has received research grants from the South African National Research Foundation, the European Union as well as the British Academy.