Description: Argyro Barata is a professional, specialized in project management, cultural tourism and cultural entrepreneurship. She offers capacity building workshops for business development of creative and cultural projects. She is an expert in designing cultural experiences for the tourism sector, luxury hotels and destinations. She advocates for using culture as a force for local sustainable development
Her body of work is centered on multiple cross-sectoral directions:
During her studies in Business Administration of Tourism Industries she came across with the concept of promoting places through cultural activities during her life-changing experience at the Erasmus placement in Spain. From that point on she centered her academic and professional efforts on Cultural Tourism in developing concepts, events and experiences that integrate the local identity of a destination into lasting holiday memories for the modern traveler. At Handpicked, she is known for her tireless spir
Up till recently, she curated, developed and produced for four years Reworks Agora , the international forum of ideas of Reworks Festival. A cross-thematic conference funded by the Creative Europe program that explores the future advancements from the intersection of culture, technology and entrepreneurship in collaboration with other 8 major European music festivals. Another significant project, which she co-curated, during the Covid-19 lockdown, was the Unlearning Talks , a 10episode webcast series with v