Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, president of IFITT (International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism) is currently at Enter 2013, an annual conference organised by IFITT.

The ENTER conference, organised by IFITT, offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations 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.
At ENTER 2013, the theme is eTourism opportunities and challenges for the next 20 years exploring information and communication technologies concepts, applications, and business models in travel and tourism.

The conference brings together the research community with industry and it is organised in three streams namely, industry, destinations and research tracks. The conference also features 6 world class keynote speakers. All submissions to the research track is rigorously evaluated for novelty, significance, and soundness. Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations.

The conference celebrates 20 years of continuing contribution and ground breaking interactions within the IFITT community. All started in Innsbruck and we are back here to celebrate our 20th birthday.

We will be bringing you more news from the conference soon.