Pau Pitarch De Dalmases | Consultant, professor and tourism expert
- Cofounder and Partner Consultant at PAX# Genuine Tourism Advisors
- Expert consultant in tourism sustainability
- EarthCheck Sales Partner for Spain and Central America
- Director of Master in Hotel Management at OSTELEA – University of Lleida
- Organising Committee Member of the B-Travel | Barcelona International Tourism Fair
- Member of the Tourism Professionals Catalan Association ACPT
- Founding member of the Tourism Leaders Lobby TLL
Pau is Co-Founder and Partner of PAX# Genuine Tourism Advisors, a consulting firm based in Barcelona (Spain), specialized in sustainable solutions to improve the tourism competitiveness of destinations, projects and companies internationally.
He is postgraduate in Tourism Management from ESADE Business School and Graduated in Tourism from the University of Barcelona – CETT. He is also accredited with the Certificate in Sustainable Tourism of the GSTC – Global Sustainable Tourism Council) and member of the Organizing Committee of the B-Travel (Barcelona International Tourism Fair).
He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the tourism sector worldwide, actively working as expert consultant specializing in the fields of destinations strategic planning, tourism sustainability and quality standards implementation, feasibility studies for hotel and leisure mixed use projects, tourism markets research, capacity building, community engagement, institutional strengthening, and tourist product creation.
His career as a consultant begins in Spain by actively participating in the training and implementation of the Q for Quality Standard Label in entities and companies throughout the tourist value chain (Cegos, 2002-2006). Later, he specializes in feasibility studies for investments and main global hotel groups at an international level, working in Egypt, Ukraine, England, Spain, Dominican Republic, Colombia and Costa Rica (Horwath HTL, 2008-2010).
Since 2010, as co-founder and partner consultant of PAX # Genuine Tourism Advisors, he has focused on the development of projects to improve the competitiveness of destinations and companies, being strategic planning, sustainability as value creation, and capacity building for the management and governance of tourism projects and destinations, the key axes of the company specialization. PAX# has built a solid expertise in Central America during the last decade, thank to projects developed in Panama, El Salvador, Honduras or Belize.
EDUCATION | |
2006 | Postgraduate Program in Tourism Management
ESADE Business School – Barcelona (Spain) |
2000 | Graduated in Tourism
University of Barcelona / CETT Centre Estudis Turístics – Barcelona (Spain) |
ADDITIONAL | |
2019 | Certificate in Sustainable Tourism – GSTC STTP 1903
GSTC – Global Sustainable Tourism Council |
2019 | Accreditation as advisor for Tourism Sustainability Commitment Barcelona Biosphere Project
Barcelona Council – Barcelona Chamber of Commerce (Spain) |
2016 | Accreditation as advisor for Tourism Sustainability Commitment Barcelona Province Biosphere Project
Barcelona Chamber of Commerce – Barcelona Province Government (Spain) |
2016 | Accreditation as advisor for Responsible Tourism System – BIOSPHERE
RTI – Responsible Tourism Institute – Barcelona (Spain) |
2015 – Present | Director of the Hotel Management Master and Associate Professor in several tourism modules.
OSTELEA / EAE Business School / University of Lleida – Barcelona (Spain) |
2012 – Present | Organizing Committee Member
B-TRAVEL Salón Internacional de Turismo de Cataluña – Barcelona (Spain) |
2013 – 2020 | Associate Professor
ESIC Business & Marketing School – Barcelona (Spain) |
2012 – 2015 | Profesor de Urban Tourism en el Grado de Turismo
Universitat de Barcelona / Centre Estudis Turístics CETT – Barcelona (Spain) |
2010 | Acreditación de Formador, Asesor y Evaluador SICTED (Sistema Integral de Calidad en Destinos)
Secretaría General de Turismo – Ministerio Industria, Turismo y Comercio (Spain) |
2001 | PDP Skills for Digital Economy: Web Based Marketing
Cornell University – Ithaca, New York (USA) |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
Nov. 2010 Present | Cofounder & Partner Consultant
PAX# – Genuine Tourism Advisors – Barcelona (Spain) www.paxadvising.com |
Sep. 2009
Enero 2011 |
Associate Senior Consultant & Cofounder
C4T – Tourism Business & Planning – Barcelona (Spain) www.c4tourism.com |
2008 – 2009 | Senior Consultant – Studies & Planning Division
Horwath HTL (part of Crowe Horwath International) – Barcelona (Spain) www.horwathhtl.com |
2006 – 2008 | International Corporate Sales Manager
Gran Hotel La Florida – Barcelona (Spain) www.hotellaflorida.com |
2004 – 2006 | Consultant
TEA – Cegos Consultur – Barcelona (Spain) www.cegos.es |
2003 – 2004 | Operations Manager
Hotel Sansi Diputació – Barcelona (Spain) www.sansihotels.com |
2003 | Food & Beverage Operations Manager
The Roger Smith Hotel – New York (USA) www.rogersmith.com |
2002 | Consultant
Consultur, Consultores en Turismo y Ocio – Barcelona (Spain) www.cegos.es |
2000 – 2001 | Hotel Management Internship Program Trainee
The Roger Smith Hotel – New York (USA) www.rogersmith.com |