PhD Researcher, Barbara Neuhofer has just returned from presenting at the CAUTHE Conference 2013 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Barbara presented her paper that she co-authored with Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and Professor Adele Ladkin, titled “Experiences, Co-creation and Technology: A conceptual approach to enhance tourism experiences” at the conference. Back in November, Barbara was awarded… Read more »
eTourism Lab team
Georgina Sekadakis
Social media & charity
Dr Andrew Spencer
Technology adaptation & strategic management
Luca Smiroldo
E-marketing & SMTEs
Nicolas Gregori
Social media & service design
Barbara Neuhofer
Tourism experience & technology
Zornitza Yovcheva
Smart phone augmented reality
Ivana Rihova
Events & social co-creation
John Fotis
Social media & consumer behaviour
Technology Enhanced Tourist Experiences: a holistic exploration of how technology can enhance tourist experiences
Technology Enhanced Tourist Experiences Barbara Neuhofer and Dimitrios Buhalis The notion of consumers increasingly striving for experiences constitutes an important concept for the tourism industry. The strategic staging of experiences in the experience economy has become crucial for companies as products have become commodified and competitive advantage can only obtained by providing customers with unique… Read more »
ENTER2013 Awards for the BU eTourismLab
Last week, after the success of ENTER2013 @ Innsbruck, Austria Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and PhD student Soultana Symeonidou were both awarded separate awards from the conference committee. Dimitrios was awarded the “20 Years ENTER Paper Contribution” 1st Place and Soultana won the “Best PhD Proposal Award” 3rd Place. Enter 2013 ran from Tuesday 22nd –… Read more »
Research project on social media for conferences
In January 2013 I started a research project called: ‘The Relevance of Social Media when Generating International Engagement for Conferences’. The core aim of this research is to determine the influence that social media engagement by conference convenors might have on a total conference experience of delegates. Additionally how social media can add value to… Read more »
ENTER2013 Conference: eTourism Opportunities and Challenges for the next 20 years
Innovation and latest trends at the ENTER 2013 conference in Innsbruck Innovation and latest trends at ENTER 2013 www.enter-2013.org Innovation and latest trends in information and communication technology will form one of the main themes at ENTER 2013 providing conference delegates with an useful insight into a number of focussed issues such as social… Read more »
VS-Games 2013 – 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications hosted at Bournemouth University
VS-Games 2013, the fifth outing of the International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications will be hosted at Bournemouth University, UK between the 11th and the 13th of September 2013. With the conference organized in previous years at locations such as Coventry (UK), Braga (Portugal), Athens (Greece) and Genoa (Italy), it will take place, for… Read more »
Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis and Barbara Neuhofer of the eTourismLab at the IFITT@WTM Technology enabling Travel
WTM TECHNOLOGY ENABLING TRAVEL ORGANISED BY IFITT 5th NOVEMBER 2012 Technology Enabled Tourism Experience Economy The International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) is hosting a workshop entitled “WTM Technology enabling travel organised by IFITT” at the London World Travel Market (WTM) 2012. The event will take place on Monday, 5th November 2012… Read more »
John Fotis of the eTourism Lab Bournemouth University presenting in Greece’s leading tourism conference
John Fotis of the eTourism Lab Bournemouth University addressing the SETE conference in Athens. New forms of tourism marketing, social media and strategic responses www.seteconferences.gr Very honored to deliver a keynote presentation in Athens, and be among a number of distinguished speakers, during the 11th annual “Tourism & Development” conference organized by the Association… Read more »
New project: The Gamification of Tourism – A Future Trend
Project Description: Gamification uses gaming mechanism in a non-traditional gaming context. Its potential impact to generate brand awareness and encourage consumer engagement makes it popular in many businesses including tourism. According to WTM Report (2011), gamification is a major trend for the coming years in tourism. It represents a new industry frontier which this project… Read more »
New publication: Dr Christos Gatzidis co-authors book on Epic Games’ Unreal Development Kit (UDK)
Dr Christos Gatzidis has co-authored an instructional text book on Epic Games’ Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free game engine. UDK is one of the most popular third-party developer licensed game engines around (the commercial version of the Unreal engine is used in games such as Batman Arkham City, the Mass Effect series and many others). The Unreal engine can also… Read more »