Editorial Leadership

Editorial Board

Meet the scholars and professionals who guide CACTUS Journal's scientific rigor, uphold its ethics, and shape its strategic vision.

Claudia-Elena Țuclea
Editor-in-Chief

Claudia-Elena Țuclea

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Professor, Department of Tourism and Geography, Faculty of Business and Tourism, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Claudia-Elena Tuclea (Țuclea) holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Business Administration from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where she earned her PhD in April 2004. Her teaching and research focus on business administration, strategic management, human resource management, consumer behavior, and organizational behavior. She has been involved in numerous research projects and authored or co-authored several handbooks and articles.

Editorial Team

Editors

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Diana-Maria Vrânceanu
Diana-Maria Vrânceanu
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Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Marketing, Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Research interests include pricing strategies, behavioral pricing, marketing ethics, tourist behavior, corporate social responsibility, social media marketing, and consumer behavior. She teaches Marketing, International Marketing Research, Pricing Strategies, Advanced Research Techniques, and Qualitative Research. She has published in journals such as Journal of Business Research, Transformations in Business and Economics, Amfiteatru Economic, Management & Marketing, Central European Business Review, Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, Sustainability, and Systems.
Andreea Fortuna Șchiopu
Andreea Fortuna Șchiopu
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Professor of business communication, business administration, and hospitality and tourism management at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA) and has published in Journal of Business Research, Telematics and Informatics, Technology in Society, Journal of International Marketing, and European Journal of Marketing. Her research explores consumer behavior, communications and marketing, emotions, emotional labor, and tourists’ interactions with new technologies such as VR.
Daniel Bulin
Daniel Bulin
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Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Tourism, Bucharest University of Economic Studies (BUES), and Senior Researcher II at the Institute of World Economy of the Romanian Academy. He holds degrees in Business Administration, Tourism Business Administration, and Communication in Education and Research for Business, and completed a PhD in Economics – Business Administration, followed by postdoctoral research. His work spans sustainable development, tourism competitiveness, global economic dynamics, business ethics, and strategic hospitality management, with extensive publications, conference involvement, and editorial board service.
Maria Cristina Iorgulescu
Maria Cristina Iorgulescu
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University lecturer, Department of Tourism and Geography, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, with over 13 years of teaching experience. Her PhD focused on promoting creativity and innovation in the Romanian hotel industry. She now concentrates on stimulating innovation, human resources, and sustainable management in tourism. She has published 33 articles (including ISI-indexed papers) and has served as an editor of the CACTUS – Tourism Journal since 2016.
Alexandru Gavriș
Alexandru Gavriș
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Lecturer at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Department of Tourism and Geography. He teaches Tourism Geography, Geopolitics, and Academic Writing. His research spans vulnerability assessment, geography of tourism, political geography, and critical geography.

Management

Managing Editor

Luciana-Floriana Poenaru
Luciana-Floriana Poenaru
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Assistant professor in the Tourism and Geography Department, Faculty of Business and Tourism, Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Her teaching and research cover business administration, tourism, the services economy, and business ethics. She has published in journals including Amfiteatru Economic and Sustainability.

Heritage

Founding Editor & Former Editor-in-Chief

Gabriela Cecilia Stănciulescu (1947–2023)

Gabriela Cecilia Stănciulescu (1947–2023)

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Professor Stănciulescu’s prolific career spanned books, studies, university courses, scientific articles, and national / international research contracts. Honors include the Nicolae Georgescu Roegen Diploma for Research (1999–2004), National Prize "Encyclopedia of the Year 2003", OPERA OMNIA Diploma (2005), National Prize "Virgil Madgearu" (2005), and awards from the Association of Tourism Journalists and Writers (2011). She also received the "College Merit Virgil Madgearu" diploma in 2023.

Extended Network

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ASE Publishing House

Technical Editing & Proofreading

Silvia Răcaru

Editor Coordinator, ASE Publishing House, Romania

Emilia Velcu

Final Proofreading, ASE Publishing House, Romania

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