Dr. Evangelia Parisi was born in 1977 in Kefalonia, which is on the Ionian Sea coast of western Greece. She completed her primary, secondary and high school education in Kefalonia, is a teacher of Public Relations, Promotion and Tourism at the Faculty of Communication of Ionian University, also located in the same region. She also completed her postgraduate and doctoral degrees in this field, speaks English, German, Italian, French and Spanish fluently. She also interested in music, has conducted research on the tourism potential of Türkiye and Greece. She has important studies on tourism management in Bolu province, trade of local products and the vitality levels of local economies thanks to tourism. She has recently been working on Artificial Intelligence, is particularly researching the functionality of artificial intelligence in the tourism sector. She currently works as a lecturer at Ionian University, is married and has four children. One of them is her daughter named Merilena Kalafati who is a famous musician in the in the Ionian Islands region.