Tourism

NEW PAPER: The impacts of Metaverse on tourist behaviour and marketing implications

NEW PAPER PUBLISHED ON METAVERSE Kılıçarslan, Ö., Yozukmaz, N., Albayrak, T., Buhalis, D., 2024, The impacts of Metaverse on tourist behaviour and marketing implications, Current Issues in Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2024.2326989 ABSTRACT Metaverse is expected to deeply affect the travel and tourism industry and requires a dearth of empirical research. In this investigation, two exploratory qualitative research studies… Read more » about NEW PAPER: The impacts of Metaverse on tourist behaviour and marketing implications

Fan, X. F.; Buhalis, D., Fragkaki, E., Tsai, YR, 2024, Achieving Senior Tourists’ Active Aging through Value Co–creation: A Customer-Dominant Logic Perspective, Journal of Travel Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231214733 

NEW RESEARCH PAPER PUBLISHED Fan, X. F.; Buhalis, D., Fragkaki, E., Tsai, YR, 2024, Achieving Senior Tourists’ Active Aging through Value Co–creation: A Customer-Dominant Logic Perspective, Journal of Travel Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231214733 Senior tourists have their own travel behaviors and preferences and require specific resources from the tourism industry and the broader society. This study adopts customer-dominant… Read more » about Fan, X. F.; Buhalis, D., Fragkaki, E., Tsai, YR, 2024, Achieving Senior Tourists’ Active Aging through Value Co–creation: A Customer-Dominant Logic Perspective, Journal of Travel Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231214733 

Metaverse innovation research agenda

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis has been developing research on Metaverse and has published a range of high-impact journal articles with colleagues around the world. Buhalis, D., Leung, D., Lin, M., 2023, Metaverse as a Disruptive Technology Revolutionising, Tourism Management and Marketing, Tourism Management, Accepted – forthcoming https://www.academia.edu/94737378/ Buhalis, D., Lin, M., Leung, D., 2023, Metaverse as… Read more » about Metaverse innovation research agenda

Dimitrios Buhalis Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing

The sweet moment that you receive the Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing after 2 years of hard work editing the work of 1500 wonderful authors from around the world resulting to a mega project of more than 1250 entries, 3528 pages, and more than 2 million words. Buhalis, D., (ed), 2022, Encyclopedia of Tourism… Read more » about Dimitrios Buhalis Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing

New Publication: de Souza, J., Mendes, LF., Buhalis, D., 2020, Evaluating the effectiveness of tourist promotions to improve the competitiveness of destinations, Tourism Economics, Vol. 26(6), pp, 1001–1020,

New Publication: de Souza, J., Mendes, LF., Buhalis, D., 2020, Evaluating the effectiveness of tourist promotions to improve the competitiveness of destinations, Tourism Economics, Vol. 26(6), pp, 1001–1020, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354816619846748   This study focuses on the evaluation of the tourist destination advertising effectiveness. The destination advertising response DAR model was used to analyze data on the… Read more » about New Publication: de Souza, J., Mendes, LF., Buhalis, D., 2020, Evaluating the effectiveness of tourist promotions to improve the competitiveness of destinations, Tourism Economics, Vol. 26(6), pp, 1001–1020,

PROVISIONAL programme for the BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference Bournemouth University, 4-6th September 2017 Visitor Economy

PROVISIONAL programme for the BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference Bournemouth University,  4-6th September 2017  Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/visitor-economy Register on https://thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com The conference has attracted a very large number of abstracts and due to public demand we will extend the deadline  Look forward to welcome you to Bournemouth University  Adam Blake, Neelu Seetaram, Dimitrios Buhalis Provisional Programme… Read more » about PROVISIONAL programme for the BU Tourism and Hospitality Conference Bournemouth University, 4-6th September 2017 Visitor Economy

International Tourism and Hospitality Conference The Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations Bournemouth University 4-6 September 2017

International Tourism and Hospitality Conference The Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations Bournemouth University 4-6 September 2017 http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/visitor-economy Register on https://thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com Conference topics The visitor economy includes all activities which contribute to visitors experiences. At the core are the components of the tourism product, such as accommodation, food, restaurants, transport and attractions. The concept, however, is much… Read more » about International Tourism and Hospitality Conference The Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations Bournemouth University 4-6 September 2017

New article: The female tourist experience in Egypt as an Islamic destination

New article: Brown, L., Osman, H., 2017, The female tourist experience in Egypt as an Islamic destination, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 63, pp.12–22 access for free until 26th February on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738316301736 Abstract : In Islamic destinations female tourists face the added challenge of negotiating their way through male constructed local norms. This paper fills the gap in gender… Read more » about New article: The female tourist experience in Egypt as an Islamic destination

Bournemouth University supports the Dorset Tourism Awards and celebrates innovation and service

Bournemouth University was very well involved with the Dorset Tourism Awards http://www.dorsettourismawards.org.uk/ @swtourismawards #dorsettourismawards last week at the Tank Museum. The Department of Tourism and Hospitality supports the Dorset Tourism Awards and celebrates innovation and service. On behalf of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University Dr Sean Beer presented the awards. TOURISM EVENT & FESTIVAL… Read more » about Bournemouth University supports the Dorset Tourism Awards and celebrates innovation and service

Bournemouth University event at the World Travel Market WTM: eTourism: Disrupting innovations for Tourism and Hospitality

WTM eTourism: Disrupting innovations for Tourism and Hospitality Monday 7th November 2016, 10:30 – 12:15   WTM Inspire Theatre – EU475 FREE event – need to have access to the World Travel Market on Monday https://bu-ifitt-wtm.eventbrite.co.uk http://www.wtmlondon.com/en/Sessions/28215/eTourism-Disrupting-innovations-create-opportunities-and-challenges-the-tourism-and-hospitality-industry Disrupting innovations generate significant market structure changes, modifying the operating practices, industry structure and dominant logic. This structural change is affecting… Read more » about Bournemouth University event at the World Travel Market WTM: eTourism: Disrupting innovations for Tourism and Hospitality