Anita Zehrer is Head of the Family Business Center at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI). From 2007 to 2015 she was Deputy Head of the MCI Tourism Department, from 2012 to 2017 she was Deputy Head of the Academic Council, from 2016-2019 she was Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, Australia, from 2012-2016 she was Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia. From 2009 to 2018 she served as Vice-President of the German Association for Tourism Research DGT, 2014 to 2017 she was Member of the Tourism Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Energy, Germany, from 2016 to 2017 she was tourism expert at the Committee of Regions at the European Union. She is member of the Academy of Management (AoM), the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST), the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), the International Center for Research and Education in Tourism (ICRET) the Senate of the Christian Doppler Gesellschaft, the Working Group Family Firm of the FGF e.V., the International Family Enterprise Research Association (IFERA), EQUA Stiftung and FGF e.V.