Vugar Dargahov is Associate Professor of “Economic-Political Geography and Tourism of Foreign Countries Department of Baku State University, PhD in Geography. He specializes in such areas as ecotourism, ethno tourism, rural tourism, green tourism. During his activity V. Dargahov participated as an expert in the following projects and grants programs:
– 2011-2017 he was engaged as an expert on Organization of tourism recreation zones of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism;
– 2018 GIZ European Council “Support to Local and Regional Development (Ganja-Kazakh economic region) expert in professional trainings;
– 2019 Tourism potential of Goygol, Dashkasan, Gadabey, Tovuz regions was evaluated as a guide in the Support to Local and Regional Development project of GIZ and the Council of Europe for the Ganja-Kazakh economic region, and their detailed web-content was prepared;
– 2020 State Tourism Agency Services for development of health tourism open tender winner;
– 2021-2022 Winner of the Project “Evaluation and register of tourism-recreational potential of the Lesser Caucasus natural region of the Science Development Fund under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan;
– 2022-2024 Executive of the Azerbaijan Science Foundation project called Directions of organization of sustainable tourism in areas freed from occupation and assessment of economic efficiency;
– 2022-2024 State Tourism Agency, contractor of the project on the evaluation of tourism-recreational potential in liberated territories and creation of TRZ.