My career path features a wide range of professional activities, which revolve around communicating historical, artistic, and cultural knowledge to different target groups in various ways. This versatility is one of my greatest assets. It enables me to draw on my extensive knowledge and broad work experience, mainly gained in the tourism industry and numerous related work areas, from teaching and lecturing to tour program design, guided tours, acting and writing.
The result is customized, smart, and well-organized service products, which are workable, innovative, and creative.
An innate love of working with people combined with finely honed people skills enhance the quality of my products.
Educational Record
- Master’s Degree in History from Vienna University; Minors in Art History and Ethnology
- Post Graduate Degree in Diplomatic Studies from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna
- Diploma in Tourism from the International College of Tourism & Management, Bad Voeslau, Austria
- Certified Tourist Guide in Austria
Professional Record
- Lecturer on topics of Austrian history and culture for the Academy of Diplomatic Studies and several riverboat cruise lines in Vienna
- Tourism lecturer, developer of curricula and teaching materials, trainer of tour guides and head of the Tourism Department at the Divine Word University – Madang, Papua New Guinea
- Author of the historical biography “Maria Theresa of Austria. Full-Blooded Politician, Devoted Wife and Mother to All”
- Co-designer and actress for a historical sketch, which reenacts the lives of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and his wife Empress Elisabeth, the Habsburg’s celebrity couple
- Tour program designer of special interest tours in Vienna and certain Austrian regions for international river cruise lines and a German study trip operator
- Tour guide in Vienna; team leader of a selected group of guides, enabling me to handle large-scale contracts; director of multi-day tours to special interest tourist regions in Austria, such as Salzburg and the lake area
- Trainer for workshops on the importance of tourist attractions at the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management – Salzburg, Austria
- Desk officer at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the Asian and Economic Policies Departments – Vienna, Austria
- Junior Professional Officer at the International Labor Organization, a UN-organization, for a tourism project on Mount Kilimanjaro – Arusha, Tanzania
- Tour Manager in Latin America, Spain, India, and Austria
Working Languages
Fluent in German and English; good knowledge of French and Spanish
Regine – close up and personal
Keen traveler, nature, art and culture lover, enthusiastic cook, passionate skier
