eTourismLab

Smart Tourism Workshop @eTourism Lab
2017-03-22 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | eTourismLab @Room FG06, Fusion Building, Bournemouth University, Department of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University Bournemouth , BH12 5BB , United Kingdom
Smart Tourism Workshop – Fusion Building FG06

@eTourism Lab, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Bournemouth University

Wednesday 22 March 2017 – 10:00-17:00 Fusion, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus BH12 5BB, UK

Supported by Digital Town

Smart tourism is changing the competitiveness of tourism destinations and determines their ability to cocreate value for their stakeholders. Through interoperability and interconnectivity of systems tourism destinations will be able to co-create dynamic tourism products for all stakeholders. Smart Cities and Smart Living can bring together the need to use technology innovations to develop regional competitiveness of territories towards Social Innovation & Governance and create value to all stakeholders. Social, technological, economic, democratic and politically innovative processes in cities and regions introduce a wide range of innovative methods and solutions that improve the value cocreation for all stakeholders. Based on emergent smart cities and smart living developments and methodologies smart tourism support mobility, resource availability and allocation, sustainability and quality of life/visits for all stakeholders. Bringing together stakeholders and multidisciplinary expertise from different areas that support smartness will bring provide a comprehensive approach to develop the different areas of smart tourism for the future.

09:30 –10:00 Arrival and networking FG06
10:00-11:30 Smart Tourism Developments
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis eTourismLab Bournemouth University: Smart Tourism Futures
Chris Cooper Founding Director KnowNow : connecting the dots – PAS 181 Smart city framework
Mark Smith Director Bournemouth Tourism
11:30-13:00 Clusters of Developments & Networking and Focus Group
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and Malvika Nighojkar : Smart Tourism Focus Group
13:00-14:30 Technological innovations – Best Cases of Smart Tourism
Dr Nigel Willams eTourism Lab Bournemouth University Social media and smartness
Lee Mallon Managing Director Rarely Impossible : Smart Bournemouth
Rob Monster Chief Executive Officer DigitalTown, Inc : Smart destination platforms
14:30-15:00 Break and Networking
15:00-16:30 Tourism Innovations – Ways forward for Smart Tourism
Dr Philip Alford, eTourism Lab Bournemouth University Enterpreneurship and technology
Samantha Richardson, National Tourism Coastal Academy Smart Coast
Jon Weaver, Bournemouth Tourism Smart Tourism and managing mega events
16:30 – 17:00 Conclusions, knowledge cocreation and Ways forward
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis eTourismLab Bournemouth University

The Bournemouth University eTourism Lab explores cutting edge information and communication technologies, alongside e-based strategic management and marketing for the tourism and hospitality industries. The eTourism Lab resides within the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR) in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Management at Bournemouth University. The eTourism Lab offers global excellence in the field of eTourism in the widest possible sense which includes eTravel, eTransport, eHospitality and eCatering/Food. In addition it researches how social media is becoming critical for organisations to communicate effectively and compete globally. Latest research themes include online reputation and managing brands online; real time business management and marketing social media engagement, co-creation and interaction; augmented reality and gamification. Led by world expert Professor Dimitrios Buhalis the Lab is a research centre of global excellence.
Supported by DigitalTown
DigitalTown empowers governments, businesses and citizens alike. DigitalTown provides a fresh approach to local economic development – one that equips municipalities and small businesses with the means to compete and win locally. DigitalTown empowers governments, businesses and citizens alike. Our Smart City platform consolidates the functionality of popular sites like Google, Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor and Expedia into a single, user-friendly mobile and web experience that makes it easy for visitors to connect with local merchants, restaurants and lodging providers. Our cloud-hosted GovSuite admin suite streamlines workflows, and connects stakeholders. We partner with governments to improve quality of life and we deliver platform and tools to promote discovery and use of local merchants. We empower citizens to engage with their public officials, neighbors and the wider community. We Power Smart Cities.

For more information please contact Professor Dimitrios Buhalis eTourism Lab Bournemouth University

Smart Tourism and Agile Destination Management
2017-07-11 10:00 - 17:00 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
Smart Tourism and Agile Destination Management
Dept of Tourism and Hospitality Bournemouth University
Tuesday 11 July 2017
Share Lecture Theatre, Talbot Campus 10:00-17:00
Smart systems take advantage of interconnectivity and interoperability of integrated technologies to reengineer processes and data in order to produce innovative services, products and procedures towards maximising value for all stakeholders. Smartness reengineers economies and industries, and shapes products, actions, processes and services in real-time. Agility engages different stakeholders simultaneously to optimise the collective performance and competitiveness and generate benefits for all involved in the value system. To achieve that, smart systems use innovative robust technology, the Internet of everything, cloud computing, big data, advanced data analytics, and a robust and ever expanding communications infrastructure.
Based on Smart Cities research and methodologies, a Smart Tourism Destination successfully implements smartness and agility to ensure that everybody is interconnected and processes are integrated towards value generation, through dynamic co-creation, sustainable resources and dynamic personalisation and adaptation to context. All suppliers and intermediaries, the public sector, as well as consumers and various interested parties are networked, dynamically co-producing value for everybody interconnected in the ecosystem.

Preliminary programme:
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-12:00 Smartness and agility : technology towards a connected world
12:00-13:00 Break
13:00-14:30 Smart Business and agile innovations
14:30-15:00 Break
15:30-16:30 Smart Destinations and building agile ecosystems
16:30-17:00 Smart Futures and conclusions

More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/249766028804417/

International Conference Theme: Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, Smart Living
2017-09-04 - 2017-09-06 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, Smart Living announced as a Theme of the The Visitors’ Economy: Strategies and Innovations Conference Bournemouth University, UK. 4-6 September 2017.
Track Chairs: Igor Calzada, Oxford University and Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University

Smart tourism emerges as a concept that enables destinations to build their competitiveness based on the interoperability of systems and co-creation of tourism products between all stakeholders. This is based on emergent smart cities and smart living developments and take city principles to urban or rural areas and not only consider residents but also tourists in their efforts to support mobility, resource availability and allocation, sustainability and quality of life/visits.
The Smart City idea and application from the Critical Social Innovation perspective means that a new paradigm is required when bottom-up interventions are the key governance challenge in the postgrowth era. A requirement that are already taking place due to the effect of some disruptive private initiatives such as Uber and AirBnB, among others, that are altering the traditional dynamic between the locals/residents and the trans-locals/tourists in a new way of combining the practice of travelling, the changing nature of the mobile way of living and the new understanding of the place itself.

Smart Cities and Smart Living can bring together the need to use technology innovations to develop regional competitiveness of territories towards Social Innovation & Governance and create value to all stakeholders. Social, technological, economic, democratic and politically innovative processes in cities and regions introduce a wide range of innovative methods and solutions that improve the value cocreation for all stakeholders.
The theme is inclusive to a range of Smart Cities, Smart Living and Smart Tourism approaches including the following topics:

Smart region technologies and Open Innovation
Internet of Everything, Bid Data, Analytics
Digital and Smart Living
Smart Territories – Comparative City-coastal/mountain Regions
Smart Transformations: Innovation, Transition, Governance, Resilience,Change
Smart Cities and smart tourism
Digital Social Innovation
Social Capital & Social Entrepreneurship
Smart region and smart tourism Strategy & Governance
Smart Tourism, Smart Travel, Smart hospitality
Smart Local Governance, Citizen Participation & Communitarian Development
Smart and Future everything

Papers are invited on these topics as well as papers using other economic methodologies to analyse the visitor economy or issues relating to it.

Deadline for abstract submission: 26 May 2017
Confirmation of acceptance: 30 June 2017
Last date for early bird registration: 14 July 2017
Deadline for registration: 18 Aug 2017
Please submit email abstracts to: DepTHconference2017@bournemouth.ac.uk
Mark it for the Conference Theme: Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, Smart Living

Conference fees and registration
Last date for early bird registration: 14 July 2017
Early Bird: £345
Full Delegate: £475
Student Early Bird: £190
Student: £240
Deadline to register: 27 August 2017
Further information and Registeration: https://thevisitorseconomy.eventbrite.com.

Keynote: Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, Oxford University – Tourism in Smart Cities? Effects from the Urban Transformations perspective

Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA is Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University, Urban Transformations ESRC Programme at COMPAS. In addition to this, he holds a Lecturer position at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 2016, he was awarded Visiting Fellow position at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where is organising a Workshop Series 2016-2017 entitled ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’ in a wide range of topics such as data, governance, social innovation, migration, economic development, among others. Outside academia, in the private sector, he worked for more than a decade at the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation Group based in the Basque Country (Spain). In the public sector, he was Director at the Basque Regional Government.He is working on the crossroads between: Territory + Strategy + Social Innovation. Current Research Interests include City-Regions, Governance, Urban Change, PostGrowth Transition, Social Innovation, Participation, Smart Cities & Sovereignty. His main research focuses on comparing social, technological, economic, democratic and politically innovative processes in cities and regions by paying special attention to cases and issues of regional and metropolitan devolution. In particular, he is focused on investigating European City-Region and Smart City benchmarking case studies through the application of qualitative and action research methods. More information: www.igorcalzada.com/about

Related publications:

Calzada, I. (2016), (Un)Plugging Smart Cities with Urban Transformations: Towards Multistakeholder City-Regional Complex Urbanity?, URBS, Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales Journal. 6(2). 25-45. < Accessed on 10th November 2016 http://www2.ual.es/urbs/index.php/urbs/article/view/calzada >
Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2015), Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535.
Satyam, A. & Calzada, I. (2016), The Smart City Transformations: The Revolution of the 21st Century. Bloomsbury Academic and Professional Publishing. [In Print]

SMART TOURISM: Big data, artificial intelligence and robotics revolutions @WTM London
2017-11-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Excel, London, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL, United Kingdom
8 Nov 2017, 14:00 – 15:00 WTM Inspire Theatre – EU490
World Travel Market, London
Free registration
Smart Tourism session puts in agenda the main trends and challenges of smart tourism as well as discussion of research result on Smart Tourism conducted by Bournemouth University eTourism Lab. The session will be chaired by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Director of eTourism Lab Bournemouth University.
Smartness takes advantage of technology to process data in real time to produce services and products which are of value for all involved. Smart Tourism Destinations successfully implement smartness to improve the competitiveness of their destination and enhance the social, economic and environmental prosperity. Big data, artificial intelligence and robotics will propel a revolution in the tourism industry. Through using technology to ensure people are interconnected, processes can be designed to generate value to all stakeholders involved. This interactive session will discuss the principles of smartness and how they can be applied in a real life context. The session will bring together academic research and professional practice to explore how smart tourism will enable tourism destinations to take advantage of the emergent technologies.
CHAIR
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University
PANEL
David Scowsill
CEO EON Reality- Ex President and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).
Dr Mario Hardy
Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
Dr Jason Song
Chairman and CEO of Zhejiang Drore Technology, Hangzhou,
Faeez Fadhlillah
CEO and Co-Founder, Tripfez Malaysia
Antonio López de Avila Munoz
President of State Society for the Management of Innovation and Tourism Technologies (SEGITTUR), IE Business School, Madrid

Free registration

ENTER2018
2018-01-22 - 2018-01-26
Digital tourism: engagement, content, and networks
Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel and Tourism (IFITT), ENTER2018 eTourism Conference Jönköping will be the 25th annual ENTER Conference.
January 23 2018: PhD Workshop
This pre-conference event provides a forum for doctoral students undertaking research related to ICTs in Travel and Tourism to interactively discuss their research with peers, colleagues, and leading supervisors and scholars in the field. Doctoral students at all stages (i.e. beginning as well as nearly completed) are encouraged to participate.
January 24-26 2018: Main Conference
The Conference offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from industry, academia, government, and other organisations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.
Program
Here you can see and download the program of ENTER2018 and Focus Scandinavia. Please note that the program will be completed and updated continuously.

Bournemouth University Tourism and Hospitality Professional courses 28 February – 16 March 2018
2018-02-28 08:00 - 2018-03-16 17:00 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
Bournemouth University Tourism and Hospitality Professional courses 28 February – 16 March 2018

Course details – www.bournemouth.ac.uk/tourism-hospitality-shortcourses

Bookings https://tourismandhospitalitycoursesbu.eventbrite.co.uk/

Brochure https://tinyurl.com/BUTHProfessionalCourses

Book course tickets In the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, we pride ourselves on the cutting edge knowledge and professional excellence we cultivate. The combination of staff expertise and enthusiasm, knowledge excellence and co-creation with industry, generate innovation and best professional practice.

Masterclasses and short courses for personal development and executive education in tourism and hospitality. We have developed a suite of 26 professional development courses for the tourism and hospitality industry to support managers in their operational and strategic thinking. They will bring you the tools and techniques to help grow your business. Join us to learn how you can develop your potential and competitiveness through managing your staff, developing your product and service, understanding your customers and using digital marketing. You will also have access to our resources and networks to develop your competitiveness. The courses are delivered through interactive workshops and networking with leading academics and students and will support managers to develop contemporary knowledge of critical business aspects that influence their profitability and performance.

CHME 2018 Research Conference, Bournemouth
2018-05-22 - 2018-05-25 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
22-25 May 2018 Council for Hospitality Management Education CHME 2018 Conference Bournemouth University

Conference
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME), we are pleased to announce that BU’s Department of Tourism & Hospitality will be hosting the CHME 2018 Annual Research Conference next May.The Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME) conference will take place on 22-25 May 2018 in Bournemouth, https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-faculties/faculty-management/our-departments/department-tourism-hospitality/chme-2018-research-conference. The conference will be a showcase for research in innovative hospitality. The four thematic streams of the conference will be unchanged, but we are also introducing new streams of ‘research on technology and innovation’ and ‘today’s and tomorrow’s consumers’.Our main theme – ‘Innovation in hospitality: connecting all stakeholders to deliver memorable experiences’ – embraces the multifaceted changes driven by dynamic political, economic, social and technological forces surrounding hospitality, which affect both academia and industry.
Provisional Programme

Call for papers:
https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/sites/default/files/asset/document/CHME2018Programme.pdf

Early bird registration open:
Full CHME/BAHA/BHA/IoH members: £320
Non-CHME/BAHA/BHA/IoH members: £420
Students: £190
Register now
We look forward to welcoming you in Bournemouth with a vibrant academic and social programme at an inspiring conference.

Contact us
Dr Hanaa Osman, CHME 2018 Conference Chair: hosman@bmth.ac.uk
Prof Dimitrios Buhalis: dbuhalis@bmth.ac.uk
Crispin Farbrother: cfarbrother@bmth.ac.uk
Dr Evangelia Marinakou: emarinakou@bmth.ac.uk

CHME2018 PHD Workshop
2018-05-22 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
PhD Workshop
As part of the conference, we will be hosting a workshop for doctoral candidates on 22nd May 2018. This pre-conference event provides a platform for doctoral students undertaking research on various aspects of hospitality management to interact with peers and leading scholars in the field. The workshop offers doctoral students an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a supportive environment, obtain feedback from mentors who are senior academics and established researchers, explore issues related to academic and research careers, and build relationships within the broader academic community from around the world. The event has purposefully integrated an early career researchers’ development session (so-called publication retreat) in the programme curriculum which enables doctoral students to meet editors of leading tourism and hospitality journals and gain first-hand advice on devising the most effective strategies for writing and submitting papers to top journal titles.
This PhD Workshop is provided FREE of CHARGE to those registered to attend the CHME 2018 conference. The CHME 2018 conference is heavily discounted for students to encourage active participation. For those willing to attend the PhD Workshop only, there is a registration fee of £65.

Call for Research Proposals
The workshop invites all interested doctoral students to submit their research proposals for review and feedback. The research proposals should be a maximum length of 4 A4 sized-pages and should typically include the following headings:

Problem statement/definition;
Brief literature review;
Conceptual development;
Proposed methodology;
Outcome/Anticipated results;

Proposals can be submitted for presentation in either oral or poster format. 15 minutes will be allocated to oral presentations (10 minutes to present and 5 minutes for Q & A and feedback). Poster presentations will be available throughout the day for comments and feedback. Please state in your proposal which format you would like to present in.
Each submission will undergo a review process. Students will be notified about the review outcome, along with recommendations on how to improve the proposal (if applicable) before the workshop.

Submission
Please submit your research proposals to vfilimonau@bournemouth.ac.uk by the deadline below.
Time Schedule

Submission closes: Friday, 26th January 2018
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection/Revision: Friday, 9th February 2018
Submit revised proposal (if applicable): Friday, 23rd February 2018
Final acceptance (if applicable): Friday, 2nd March 2018
PhD Workshop: 22nd of May, 2018
CHME Conference: 23rd – 26th May, 2018

For queries, please email one of the CHME2018 PHD Workshop Chairs
Neelu Seetaram, Bournemouth University at nseetaram@bournemouth.ac.uk
Viachaslau Filimonau Bournemouth University at vfilimonau@bournemouth.ac.uk
Adele Ladkin, Bournemouth University at aladkin@bournemouth.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Bournemouth in May 2018.

BU Artificial Intelligence for Tourism and Hospitality – #IFITTtalk
2018-11-28 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
ABOUT

The (re) emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a service automation approach leveraging low cost computing and large datasets is impacting consumer experiences and is set to revolutionize tourism experiences. The ubiquitous and prevailing use of mobile devices for communication assures that stakeholders of such ‘consumer experiences’ are required to provide rapid responses to contextual queries made at any time, including within an experience encounter or activity at a destination level. AI tools that can make sense of real-time questions posed by consumers in context can provide significant value and increase engagement as well as reducing costs to destination organizations. The use of AI by tourism organizations is still low and this workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges of engaging AI as a customer co-creation toolset for industry and economic benefits. It will conclude with a scenario development exercise to identify possible futures for AI and Tourism along with a roadmap for the next 3 years of AI/Tourism development.
Chairs: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and Dr Nigel Williams

REGISTRATION

Free registration is available here: https://tinyurl.com/BU-IFITT-AI

PROGRAMME

09:00 –09:30 Arrival and networking FG06
09:30-11:00 Artificial Intelligence for Tourism and Hospitality – theoretical perspectives
© Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and Dr Nigel Williams : Artificial Intelligence for Tourism and Hospitality: From individuals to clusters
© Dr Iis Tussyadiah University of Surrey, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
© Dr Luiz Mendes Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Smart Tourism developments
Dr Chulmo Koo, Kyung Hee University, Korea, Smart Tourism and Artificial Intelligence
Professor Hannes Werthner Vienna University of Technology, Austria – The future of Artificial Intelligence
11:00-11:30 Coffee and networking
11:30-13:00 Artifilcial Intelligence for Tourism and Hospitality – best practice
Gergana Halatcheva, GHS Global Hospitality
Lee Mallon, Rarely Impossible
Jamie Sergeant This is Crown
Rowena (Copestake) Revill
Nikos Maniatis The Cato Bot
Rob Monster DigitalTown
Tom Keeping Keeping Studio
Manolis Varouhas imonline
13:00 -14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00-15:30 Workshops Designing the future of Articial Intelligence in Tourism
15:30-16:00 Break and Networking
16:00-17:00 Conclusions Research and Innovation agendas for the future
Chairs: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and Dr Nigel Williams
AI Fusion: Future research – Projects – Publications – Best Practice Excellence – Education Innovations

LOCATION

FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB, UK
eTourismLab, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Bournemouth University

TTRAEurope19 @Bournemouth, Tourism in the era of connectivity
2019-04-08 - 2019-04-10 | Bournemouth University, Fusion, FG06, Fusion, Bournemouth, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
TTRAEurope2019 Travel and Tourism Research Association, Europe Chapter:
Tourism in the era of connectivity
8-10 April 2019,
Bournemouth University
Department of Tourism and Hospitality
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/TTRA

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Travel and Tourism Research Association’s 2019 European Chapter Conference will be hosted by Bournemouth University Department of Tourism and Hospitality in Bournemouth Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th April 2019. This is a three-day conference that will include a doctoral colloquium day and industry best practice thread. The theme of the conference is Tourism in the era of connectivity and will cover a broad range of themes to ensure that we are inclusive of the widest range of tourism research.
People to people connectivity is an essential aspect of tourism; bringing people from all aspects of life together to meet, share moments and explore cultures, resources and experiences. Connectivity brings us together through shared routes, accessibility, communication, and experiences in different environments and destinations. Increasingly, global society is becoming more connected, facilitating opportunities for exchange and interaction, bringing both opportunities and challenges. Tourism is changing dramatically in the era of connectivity. Advanced technology enables users to amalgamate information and big data from various sources on their mobile devices, personalise their profile through applications and social networks, as well as interact dynamically with their surroundings and context. Tourism professionals increasingly use technologies and networking to bring different stakeholders together to co-create value for all. The conference will connect the different concepts of connectivity, personalisation, tourism development and marketing towards co-creation of the tourism experience. It will explore how these experiences can support the co-creation of value for all stakeholders and address a range of components of connectivity. Examples of the conference themes include but not limited to:
Themes
Coastal Tourism Anya Chapman and Samantha Richardson
Tourism Marketing Nigel William and Bruce Braham
Economics and Planning Adam Blake and Adele Ladkin
Culture and Heritage Duncan Light and Sean Bear
Hospitality Innovations Lia Marinakou and Charalampos (Babis) Giousmpasoglou
Digital tourism Philip Alford and Daisy Fan
Sustainability and Wildlife Susanna Curtin and Viachaslau Filimonau
Gender Accessibility and Inclusion Lorraine Brown, Paola Vizcaino, Jayne Caudwell
Tourism Management Svetla Stoyanova-Bozhkova and Dimitrios Buhalis
Tourism and Philosophy Philipp Wassler and Tim Gale
Special Interest and Niche Tourism Michael O’ Regan and Philipp Wassler
Spiritual, Religious and Pilgrimage Tourism Jaeyeon Choe and Hanaa Osman
Events and Leisure Mary Beth Gouthro and Miguel Moital
Experience and co-creation Elvira Bolat and Dimitrios Buhalis
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Mike Peters and Philip Alford
CONTRIBUTIONS BY ACADEMICS, PRACTITIONERS AND PHD STUDENTS ARE WELCOME IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES
Requirements
Research papers and Case studies
Papers 5000 words or 1000 word extended abstract
Doctoral Research papers
Papers 5000 words or 1000 word extended abstract
Applied (industry and sector) papers
1000 words extended abstract
Student papers (including master theses)
1000 words extended abstract

JOURNALS SUPPORTING TTRAEurope2019
Tourism Review

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

FEES 8-10 April 2019 TTRAEurope Bournemouth University
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/TTRA

Delegates
Price £

Early Bird
Before Friday 1st March 2019
Full TTRA/ATHE/GTMC/ Members
320

Non TTRA/ATHE/GTMC/ Members
420

Students (includes free TTRA membership)
190

Full registration
After Friday 1st March 2019
Full TTRA/ATHE/GTMC/ Members
420

Non TTRA/ATHE/GTMC/ Members
490

Students (includes free TTRA membership)
290

Day Ticket

190

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission: 5th January 2019
Notification for acceptance: 5th February 2019
Final submission: 1st March 2019
Conference Days 8-10 April 2019 TTRAEurope @ Bournemouth University

PROGRAMME:

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Associate Professor Luisa Andreu Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia, Spain.
Luisa Andreu is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia, Spain.Luisa has a PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Valencia (Spain), and a Master of Science in Tourism Management and Marketing from Bournemouth University (UK). She is a Member of American Marketing Science (AMS), European Academy of Marketing (EMAC), and the Spanish Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AECIT). She has participated in conferences organized by the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), and co-chaired the Tourism Marketing track of the European Marketing Conference 2018 (EMAC), Tourism: State of the Art II and EuroCHRIE, among others. Luisa has also been engaged with the Advances in Tourism Marketing Conferences (ATMC). She serves as associate editor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research and Journal of Destination Marketing & Management. Luisa is a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge (UK) and Penn State University (US). Her research interests include the analysis of destination marketing, tourist behaviour, service marketing, corporate social responsibility and digital marketing.

Professor Alan Fyall, University of Central Florida, USA and coEditor of Elsevier’s Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
Professor Alan Fyall is Orange County Endowed Professor of Tourism Marketing and Graduate Programs’ Director at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, and is a member of UCF’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research. He has published widely in the areas of tourism and destination marketing and management including 22 books. Dr. Fyall is a former Member of the Bournemouth Tourism Management Board (DMO) and Board of Solent Synergy Limited in Southern England, and has conducted numerous consulting and applied research projects for clients in the UK, European Union, Africa, the Caribbean, USA, Central and South America, and South East Asia. Alan currently teaches International Tourism Management and Destination Marketing & Management and to date has examined 27 PhDs. He is coEditor of Elsevier’s Journal of Destination Marketing & Management. His current research interests relate to smart and sustainable tourism and destination resilience in Florida, the Caribbean and South East Asia.

Professor Scott McCabe Nottingham University and co-Editor of Annals of Tourism Research.
Professor Scott McCabe is Professor of Marketing and Tourism at Nottingham University and co-Editor of Annals of Tourism Research. Scott has held lecturing posts for 20 years and his main teaching roles are in tourist consumer behaviour, tourist experience, tourism marketing management and qualitative research methodologies. Prior to joining Higher Education Scott worked in the tourism and hospitality industry first in the Peak District National Park and then during his travels in Australia and South East Asia. Scott’s research interests include tourist experience and behaviour, non-participation and social equity issues in tourism often called ‘Social Tourism’, socio-linguistics and communication in tourism and ethnographic and qualitative research methodologies. He is the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. He has written a textbook: “Marketing Communications in Tourism and hospitality: Concepts, Strategies and Cases”; co-edited “Social Tourism in Europe: Theory and Practice; and in 2014 he edited the “Routledge Handbook of Tourism Marketing”. His main research interests include tourist consumer behaviour; tourist experience and consumption; non-participation, social equity and social exclusion in tourism; tourism marketing communications and representation in tourism promotion; qualitative sociological/ethnographic research methods in tourism.

Professor Tanja Mihalič University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Professor Tanja Mihalič is Professor at the Department of Economics and Head of Tourism Institute and Erasmus Mundus European Master in Tourism Management program at the Faculty of Economics the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Prof Mihalič is also the Vice dean for student affairs at the Faculty of Economics. Professor Mihalič is a member of the UNWTO World Committee on Tourism Ethics and a board member of the International Association of Tourism Economics. She is a co-editor or active member of editorial boards of many academic journals. She is also an expert evaluator for the European Commission. Her research interests include tourism economics and management, environmental economics, sustainability and educational and tourism industry values. She has experience in developing tourism educational and research programs and as adviser in sustainable and responsible tourism to national governments and EU and global bodies.

Professor Mike Peters, Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Mike was born in Germany, completed his apprenticeship as a restaurant specialist and worked for several years in the hotel industry. He worked in small businesses in Bavaria where he learned the benefits but also problems that typical small businesses face. Mike studied Business Administration at the University of Regensburg Germany and the University of Innsbruck Austria and specialized in tourism and service economy. He completed his doctorate in 2001 and habilitated at the University of Innsbruck. In 2006 he was Research Fellow at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby (BC, Canada), in 2009, he was invited as Associate Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China). Mike has been president of the ICRET (International Center for Research and Education in Tourism) since 2009 and since 2018 he is the chapter president of the TTRA Europe (Travel and Tourism Research Association). Mike is the speaker of the Research Centre Tourism & Leisure at the University of Innsbruck, an initiative which serves as an interdisciplinary research platform for tourism research in Austria. Mike’s research focus is on researching the heterogeneity of family businesses and small businesses. He investigates factors influencing entrepreneurial behavior and tourism and hospitality firm’s success.

ATTENDING

CONFERENCE VENUE : Bournemouth University Department of Tourism and Hospitality Faculty of Management, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Dorset, BH12 5BB
PARKING There is limited parking on campusBUSES There are several regular buses from the town centre to the campus.
Free Complementary Vouchers will be provided for the duration of the conference.
One U5 bus will leave every day at 08:25 from Cumberland Hotel for Talbot campus.
(to be confirmed)
AIRPORTS Recommended are Bournemouth BOH, Southampton SOU, Heathrow LHR, Gatwick LGW – National Express busses are running from most airport to Bournemouth.
TAXI TRANSFER Darren Harvey reservations@eagleflyer.co.uk at www.eagleflyer.co.uk Tel: +44 1202 375570 can give you BU preferential rates for airport transfer LHR £100 (for up to 4 seat) £115 (8 seats) / LGW 114 (4 seats) £140 (8 seats) / LTN £125 (4seats) £145 (8 seats) / STN £175 (4 seats) £185 (8 seats) /
ACCOMMODATION
Bournemouth has sufficient accommodation in all styles, tastes and budgets.
We have negotiated special rates at the OCEANA HOTELS, HALLMARK HOTELS and MIRAMAR Hotel – See online information.
These hotels are on the sea front and clustered together to facilitate movement and social events. There are very close to the Lansdowne Campus from where delegates can take a bus for the Talbot Campus. U5 bus will leaving at 08:25 daily to serve these hotels.
SOCIAL GET TOGETHER – to be confirmed
Sunday 7 April 2019 Informal get together – The Overcliff, Suncliff Hotel, 29 East Overcliff Drive, BH1 3AG Tel 01202 291 711 (at delegates’ expense)
Monday 8 April 2019 TTRASalsaWelcomeReception – Revolution 163-167 Old Christchurch Rd, BH1 1JU Tel: +44 1202 232132 (included in fee)
Tuesday 9 April 2019 TTRAParty and Cocktails Koh Thai Lounge Bournemouth 38-40 Poole Hill, Bournemouth BH2 5PS (included in fee)
Wednesday 10 April 2019 TTRAFarewell informal get together – The Real Greek Bournemouth BH2 Exeter Crescent, Bournemouth BH2 5DD (at delegates’ expense)

Сonference Host: Prof Dimitrios Buhalis:dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk
Chairs of Scientific Committee and Organisation
Dr Tim Gale tgale@ bournemouth.ac.uk
Dr Philipp Wassler pwassler@ bournemouth.ac.uk
Prof Adele Ladkin aladkin@ bournemouth.ac.uk
Dr Daisy Fan dfan@ bournemouth.ac.uk

Reignite Mediterranean and Leisure Tourism in the post COVID-19 era
2020-05-01 08:00 - 17:00
Reignite Mediterranean and Leisure Tourism in the post COVID-19 era
Chair: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis
Monday 11th May 2020 Free Online Conference 12:00-15:30 London time
https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/etourism-lab/event/mediterranean-and-leisure-tourism-in-the-post-covid-19-era/
http://www.reignitetourmed.digitalevent.gr/
Coronavirus has costed the life of thousands of people and has unprecedented impacts to society at large around the world. At this difficult times human life and humanity should prevail above everything. Coronavirus has also destroyed economies and generated an economic and humanitarian crisis that we have not seen since the second world war. Transport, travel, tourism, hospitality, sports, entertainment industries and everything that supports socialising were hit worse and are suffering the consequences.
The Mediterranean tourism, travel, transport and entertainment ecosystem has reached ground zero as result of coronavirus. The majority of the business and the regions that depend on tourism and travel are desperate to reopen and go back to the “new” normality. Italy, Spain and France are the 3 most important destinations for tourism in Europe. Greece, Cyprus and Portugal on the other hand managed coronavirus remarkably well and therefore are expected to be able to reopen their holiday resorts early and welcome tourism activity. They can only reopen when it is safe to do for staff, employees and residents of destinations but also of transit and origin regions. In the meanwhile we need to prepare with new processes and procedures across all our functions to be able to reopen in a safe and enjoyable conditions. The European Union and governments need to take care of these regions and coordinate efforts for the support of this ecosystem that is responsible for a significant proportion of employment but also recreation and cohesion of society.
The eTourismLab, International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, Bournemouth University and Tourism Review are organising an online conference to bring together experts from the Mediterranean region to discuss the condition and preparedness to reopen the tourism industry and exchange ideas and expertise on best ways to REIGNITE TOURISM. This e-conference is supported technically by digitalevent.gr
Reignite Mediterranean and Leisure Tourism in the post COVID-19 era
Chair: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis
Monday 11th May 2020 Free Online Conference 12:00-15:00 London time
© indicates confirmed
12:00 -12:30 Reigniting Mediterranean Tourism: Welcome and introduction and Smart Practice
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University, UK Presentation – introduction
12:30-14:00 Issues and Challenges towards Reigniting Mediterranean Tourism Panel
© Professor Marina Novelli, Brighton University, UK – Presentation – introduction
© Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas, Paris 1- Sorbonne University, France
© Professor Carlos Costa, University of Aveiro, Portugal
© Dr Anna Farmaki, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
© Professor Eduardo Parra-López, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
14:00-14:15 Virtual Coffee Break
14:15 -15:30 Preparing for Reigniting Mediterranean Tourism Panel
© Professor Alexandros Paraskevas, University of West London, UK – Presentation – introduction
© Barbara Avdis, Barbara Avdis, Vice Chair Historic Hotels of Europe & Board of Directors GNTO, Greece
© Inmaculada Benito Hernandez, Iberostar Group Corporate director,Communication PR&PA, Spain
© Andrew Agius Muscat, Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, Malta
© Dr Valeria Minghetti, CISET- Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy
