{"id":3425,"date":"2023-02-23T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:55:43","slug":"two-new-books-published-by-professor-dimitrios-buhalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2023\/02\/23\/two-new-books-published-by-professor-dimitrios-buhalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new books published by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis\u00a0on Smart Cities and Sharing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two new books published by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buhalis, D. Taheri, B., Rahimi, R. (2023) Smart Cities and Tourism:\u00a0\u00a0Co-creating experiences, challenges and opportunities Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers https:\/\/www.goodfellowpublishers.com\/smart<\/a> http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.23912\/9781915097088-4973<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Taheri, B., Rahimi, R. & Buhalis, D. (2022) The Sharing Economy and the Tourism Industry. Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers https:\/\/www.goodfellowpublishers.com\/sharing<\/a> \u00a0 http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.23912\/9781915097064-4970<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Use code GP20 at checkout for 20% discount.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Smart Cities and Tourism<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Co-creating experiences, challenges and opportunities<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dimitrios Buhalis,\u00a0Babak Taheri,\u00a0Roya Rahimi<\/strong><\/h4>\n

ISBN: 9781915097088 HBK; 9781915097095 eBook<\/strong>
\nDOI: 10.23912\/9781915097088-4973<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Smart cities are places where services and networks are made more efficient with use of different types of electronic methods and digital solutions for the advantage of its locals and businesses. The gathered information and big data are then used to manage assets, resources, and services efficiently to improve the operations across the city. Smartness is about networks of interconnected entities that collaborate to develop the collective competitiveness of the ecosystem.\u00a0Smart Cities and Tourism: Co-creating experiences, challenges and opportunities\u00a0provides new insights into the current issues, opportunities, and concepts for the next generation of urban evolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The smart cities of tomorrow engage locals, visitors, governments and businesses in an intelligent, collaborative and connected ecosystem. Smart tourism integrates the entire tourism ecosystem and supports the value cocreation for all stakeholders. To this end, this book, with its three parts and 12 chapters, provides a comprehensive understanding of city services, as well as evaluating the local and visitor experience, and investigating how \u2018smartness\u2019 creates liveable environments, business solutions and tourism innovations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With international contributions from well-respected and international academics, it brings state-of-art knowledge on marketing management (and related areas such as urban studies) from a new modern perspective within the smart cities. Via academic research and international case studies, it discusses issues such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Smart cities<\/strong>
\n\u2022 The evolution of the smart city<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Smart tourist destinations<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Smart trends in the tourism and hospitality industry<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Smart sports in smart cities<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Smart cities towards the quality of life of residents<\/strong><\/p>\n

It serves as a crucial reference point for smart city researchers, scholars, students and practitioners by offering new insights and stimulating potential future research.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sharing Economy and the Tourism Industry<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Roya Rahimi,\u00a0Babak Taheri,\u00a0Dimitrios Buhalis<\/strong><\/h4>\n

ISBN: 9781915097064 HBK; 9781915097071 eBook; DOI10.23912\/9781915097064-4970<\/strong>
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The sharing economy is at the centre of number of current debates involving new technologies and innovative services, sustainability, big data and stakeholder engagement. These trends have serious implications for hoteliers, restaurant owners, airlines and car rental companies and service industries as they change the rules of the game across the services industries. This edited volume encourages new theoretical and empirical development on sharing economy studies in the service industries field.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one of the first academic volumes on this topic to focus on marketing and managerial implications specifically in tourism, services marketing and urban studies. Written by an international team of contributors and using real life case studies, it looks at issues such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n