Ioannis is Chair of The Council for Hospitality Management Education, Director of Association of North America Higher Education International, and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at Brighton Doctoral College. He has also been a trustee for The Institute of Hospitality, Tourism Concern and Cavendish Academy. He is also visiting professor at the University of Applied Science Wittenborg, External evaluator for professorship promotions with the University of Patras and was visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He has created hospitality projects that leave a legacy such as the Passion4Hospitality awards for the Institute of Hospitality, the menumuseum.eu and the worlds first pop up hotel school. He is the Hospitality Editor of Tourism and Hospitality Research (by Sage) and in the editorial board of four more hospitality related journals.