Professor Dimitrios Buhalis to keynote at the EUROPEAN HOTEL MANAGERS ASSOCIATION conference

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis to keynote on drivers and trends of luxury hospitality and the role of technology for the EUROPEAN HOTEL MANAGERS ASSOCIATION conference  Limassol 7-10 April 2016  http://ehmacyprus2016.com/

Limassol 7-10 April 2016

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis to keynote on drivers and trends of luxury hospitality and the role of technology for the EUROPEAN HOTEL MANAGERS ASSOCIATION conference  Limassol 7-10 April http://ehmacyprus2016.com/

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis to keynote on drivers and trends of luxury hospitality and the role of technology for the EUROPEAN HOTEL MANAGERS ASSOCIATION conference Limassol 7-10 April http://ehmacyprus2016.com/

Saturday, April 9th, 2016 Hotel: Amathus Beach

 

08:30 – 18:00  Educational Day “Drivers & Trends of Luxury Hospitality”

08:30 – 09:00  Opening of Educational Day

– Induction by Ms. Anna Marangou “Do you know where you are?”

– Welcome address by CTO or Government official

 

09:00 – 12:30 Morning Session

09:00 – 09:45 Keynote Speaker – Professor Dimitrios Buhalis

09:45 – 10:10 StringCan Interactive – Jason McDonald

10:10 – 10:25 MediaStrom Presentation

10:25 – 11:15 Keynote Speaker – Dr. John Kalogerakis

11:15 – 12:00 Coffee Break / Sponsors time

12:00 – 13:15 Keynote Speaker – Alexander Bard

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 14:30 Presentation of “Young EHMA”

14:30 – 15:00 Keynote Speaker – Guglielmo L. Brentel

15:00 – 16:15 Panel Discussion on “Drivers & Trends of Luxury Hospitality moderated by Michael McKay

Participants: Guglielmo Brentel; Dimitrios Buhalis; Ilham Kadri; Piotr Lipiec; Mark Lomanno

16:15 – 17:00 Coffee Break / Sponsors time

17:00 – 17:30 Keynote Speaker: Christopher Michau

17:30 – 18:15 Keynote Speaker: Mark V. Lomanno

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Day 6: Back to the fieldstation at Sicundur…

We awake at 7am, hot and cramped in our tiny tent after torrential rain had disturbed our sleep as we rescued boots and shoes from under the tent flaps.  Breakfast of smoked fish, chillies and rice is already prepared for us and we savour this before packing up our tents and equipment for our journey downriver back to the research station.  It feels bitter-sweet to be leaving.  As we put the last bit of kit in the boat and put out the fire, we glance back at this idyllic spot.

Once again the boatmen make the journey possible and despite the heavy rain the river remains shallow.  Every time we run out of water or down over rapids, our crew jump out of the boat to manhandle it gently downstream.  Despite being very ‘tippy’, this long wooden seems unsinkable.  The men are reluctant for us to get out of the boat, so we hardly walk at all on this return journey.  Once gain I feel rather guilty at watching their physical endeavours; they are nothing but bone and muscles but they are incredibly strong.  Their wages for this expedition are meagre by European standards but handsome in Indonesia… so, on reflection, I realise they are just doing their job.

The water today reflects the changeable morning light; shifting from a glassy rainforest green to a translucent turquoise. The water is contained by the limestone cliffs and enormous tree roots that spread out horizontally from the trunk.  Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the difference between rock and tree.  Small P1010462monitor lizards skulk along the water banks and eagles fly overhead whilst the now familiar kingfishers and wagtails herald our pass.  Eventually the shallow riverbed begins to change into wider, deeper water and the boat’s old outboard flutters into action.  The cool air rushing against our faces is welcome after the sultry moist heat of the rising sun….it is s easy to loose oneself in the moment. Once again I smile at where the wild elephants have trodden down the banks on their river crossing; their huge feet leaving prints in the sand: how special it is to be in a space once frequented by them.  Seeing them is wonderful but just knowing that they are there is even better!

Around the last bend the remnants of the ugly cement logging bridge emerges and marks our arrival back at Sicundur.  This quiet reflective time comes to an end as we unload and sort out our kits.  Another fabulous lunch awaits us, hot sweet coffee and an even hotter afternoon.  There is time to take stock, to do some photography and to catch up with the written work.  I take my washing down to the river and are greeted by an abundance of butterflies mesmerized by the sweet-smelling detergent.

Of all that we have seen, my favourite jewels in the crown are the butterflies and their wings of many colours. I must have seen nearly 80 different species from the tiniest purple butterflies to the feint blue and white ones, the size of birds, that gently glide, flap and glide across the water.

 

Back at the hut Mandy and Ross sort out the research equipment and I study the bird and mammal books recording all that we have seen on our expedition:  Purple herons; Intermediate egret; Whiskered tree swift; Little egret; Chestnut-headed bee-eater; White-throated kingfisher; Black-capped kingfisher; Drongo; Grey wagtail; Mountain tailorbird; Oriental magpie robin; Collared kingfisher; OraIMG_2774ngutan; Asian elephant; Crested serpent eagle; Pallas squirrel; Black giant squirrel; and a Slender squirrel.

I pick up my camera and potter around the hut looking for spiders, butterflies and lizards to photograph until 5pm when we go for a bathe in the river  to watch the sun go down. The cool, fast flowing water, soothing the heat, sweat and insects from our bodies. As the orange light turns to dimpsey and the long-tailed macaques on the bankside trees begin to settle down, the night shift takes its place in the forest play. We have electricity for about four hours each night when the generator gets switched on; this is generally when we ‘spuddle’ about, charge our equipment, have supper and put the day to bed. Tonight, however, we take our head torches and our cameras for a night forage (another of my most favourite pastimes). Amongst the backlit foliage we see butterflies, moths, bats, centipedes and various enormous grass hoppers and one single firefly that dances through the forest darkness. Time to call it a day..

Opportunities for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games : linguists and journalists

Opportunities for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games : linguists and journalistsrio

The London-Rio City Links has new Rio 2016 Olympic Games volunteer opportunities for students, staff and alumni who can speak any of the following languages:  Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese

We also have a limited number of places for Journalism students and alumni who have industry experience. We have so far placed 15 students/graduates from UK universities with roles as official specialist volunteers at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August, subject to final security checks.

The organising committee recognises the high calibre of your students and would like to recruit even more students/alumni, who have the desired skills, from the UK. We would appreciate your help once again in circulating this once-in-a-lifetime offer to the relevant departments and to any students, alumni and staff who may be interested. All of our volunteers are also being offered a place on our Pre-Games Training Camp for six to eight weeks in June and July 2016 at a Brazilian university, where they will learn Portuguese and volunteer in Brazilian society.

Additionally, we are always recruiting students/graduates of Portuguese or Spanish courses to teach English in Brazil with our five month paid internships programme. If you would like to know any more details, please do not hesitate to contact me or my colleagues Julian Vennis on Jvennis@worldcitylinks.net or Rachel Banks on rachel@worldcitylinks.net

Matthew Haley
Communications and Marketing Director
World City Links 0207 960 6348
www.LRCL.net 10 Greycoat Place, London, SW1P 1SB

Call for Papers: Disruptive Innovations in Tourism and Hospitality

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRIES

Guest editors: Giampaolo Viglia, Hannes Werthner and Dimitrios Buhalis

The diffusion of disrupting innovations has generated significant market changes, modifying the dominant logic. This structural change is affecting the organizational networks and the services tourism players are supposed to use to perform well in markets (and be efficient). This disruptive change affects the whole tourism and hospitality industry: relationships between players change as their respective roles change; this is driven by e-commerce / e-business and disruptive innovation. For instance hotels, thanks to e-business technological platforms, can now use algorithms to set yield and revenue management strategies, monitor competition in real time and allow consumers to use mobile devices to access several services.

In the tourism industry, many innovations have been initiated from companies in the information technology sector. Generally, Information technology is revolutionizing products, services and markets. The aim of this Special Issue is to promote new theoretical and empirical research on disruptive innovation for tourism, understanding how and why the changes happened (theory building), as well as providing cases for the respective arguments.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The major topics of interest focus on disruptive innovation and their role within the Tourism experience and industry. They include but are not limited to:

  • Structural changes to the industry (e.g.: dematerialization, smartness, new forms of accommodations, disruptive technologies, mobile, etc.)
  • New market structures and network relations as well as new roles of tourism players
  • Diffusion issues
  • Operators’ challenges (e.g.: forecasting the future demand, aggregations, smart statistics to support change, identifying competitor set)
  • Incremental innovation versus disruptive innovation (e.g., going beyond traditional business, traditional markets exploring not well understood problems)
  • How smart and connected products are transforming competition
  • Contextual issues (sectorial differences as well as regional differences; competition vs oligopoly)

SUBMISSION

Papers are required no later than June 30th 2016
Notification of outcome will be provided by August 30th 2016
Final papers should be submitted by October 15th 2016

Please submit manuscripts through the Springer online system (if you are a new author to the system you will be required to create a system login). Submit online

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation. The journal imposes no hard limits on the paper length as long as what authors write is important. Submissions that exceed 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) should however be accompanied by a short justification as to why a briefer discussion of their research results.

Any questions related to this special issue should be directed to:
Dr. Giampaolo Viglia, Bournemouth University, gviglia@bournemouth.ac.uk
Prof. Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Technology, hannes.werthner@ec.tuwien.ac.at

Developing your digital skills with the help of students

Over the next 5 months, CEL is piloting a project in which BU students help BU staff to develop their digital skills, knowledge and confidence. Our pilot follows similar projects at other HEIs that have been both welcomed by staff and successful in helping staff.

This help and support can be provided on a one-to-one basis or in small group settings.

In terms of what help and support will be available, we hope to be able to cover in:

  1. Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  2. Social media such as Facebook and Twitter
  3. Some of the tools in the TEL toolkit
  4. Digital skills such as image and file manipulation, digital profile privacy etc
  5. Using smartphones and tablets
  6. Using PCs and Macs

We are currently recruiting students to work on the project. In addition to the staff benefits of this pilot, we expect students will also gain through their participation in terms of their knowledge, experience and confidence. An added benefit to students is that their work is paid.

We may also be able to provide more bespoke help and support to suit individual or team needs.

Any staff member who is interested is asked to complete a short request form. We will then be in touch once we have student trainers in place.

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis on technology for accessible tourism

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis contributed to the the Europe Without Barriers project.
Here is an interview on how technology can provide tools for accessible disability tourism :
Innovations on smart technologies, cocreation, Internet of Things, bigdata

See https://youtu.be/tx_njTKTK-M

 

 Dimitrios Buhalis on Accessible Tourism and Technology https://youtu.be/tx_njTKTK-M

 

EWB conference “Accessible Tourism: Opportunity for All” on 21 and 22 March 2016.
 
You can find some information related to the conference on our media at:
 
We’ll be publishing upon our conference page (www.europewithoutbarriers.eu/en/events/ewbconference/) in the upcoming days the conference presentation. 

 

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis on #technology for #accessible #disability #tourism #smart #cocreation #IoT #bigdata https://youtu.be/tx_njTKTK-M

Global food security: encouraging healthier eating and balanced diets

From an early age, children are taught about the importance of eating fruit and vegetables, but a quick glance at most nutrition-based news stories will paint a very different picture, a rise of junk food, fast-food consumption and obesity.

Adequate vegetable consumption is fundamental to a healthy balanced diet, however EU compliance with dietary guidelines is poor and there is a notable lack of research in this area. A  collaborative team from Bournemouth University, led by nutrition expert Professor Heather Hartwell, are hoping to change our eating habits, championing vegetable consumption through a Europe-wide research project called VeggiEAT.

The VeggiEAT project aims to promote healthy eating throughout Europe and encourage more vegetable consumption across the lifespan. Professor Hartwell explains: “Within Europe, we don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables and there are a multitude of associated health issues. There’s been a lot of individual intervention, such as the five a day campaign, but VeggiEAT is particularly concerned with vegetable consumption by school children and older people.”

VeggiEAT aims to develop a European platform for vegetable intake that takes into account consumer behaviour and environment before making recommendations to both governments and vegetable manufacturers and suppliers. These recommendations will involve consumer-oriented products, the development of recipes for use by food providers and benchmarking of choice architecture facilitating the consumption of vegetables.

The project is already making an impact, and has seen engagement from both school children and older members of the community within Dorset. The project even involves current Bournemouth University undergraduate students who are testing dishes that have been designed by Culinary Master’s students in France.

Professor Hartwell, a registered nutritionist, actively works within the foodservice industry, and particularly within the public sector such as schools, hospitals and prisons, where she is able to translate her academic efforts into practice. She says: “It’s really important that the work done in universities is not isolated from how industry works – we can suggest solutions, but unless they are going to work in a real-life context, they are never going to be useful. That is one of the strengths of this research project – we are working to find reallife solutions that will help people to get the right nutrients in their diet from eating well and, ultimately, lead them to be healthier.”

Professor Hartwell and her team hope that VeggiEAT will cause us to make changes to our food habits. Professor Hartwell says: “We hope VeggiEAT will eventually inform government policy  across Europe and put the food service industry at the forefront of healthy eating interventions – while also giving consumers foods they’ll enjoy. We want the change to start at an institutional level – through schools, canteens and restaurants – but ultimately we would like to see a change in consumer behaviour that makes vegetable consumption ‘the norm’ and promotes healthy food consumption across Europe.”

The project is made possible with the support of an interdisciplinary team that includes nutritionists, psychologists, consumer behaviour experts, public health experts and the food service  industry. Bournemouth University is leading the project, working with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Florence in Italy, alongside industry partners Bonduelle and the Institute Paul Bocuse in France.

Professor Hartwell believes that the interdisciplinary nature of the team is another element that gives the research strength. “The multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral approachof the project will create a win-win situation for all partners, as well as generate spill-over effects at European level. All partners share a common interest in that they are keen to advance the promotion of healthy eating, in particular vegetable intake. By linking with scientists and industry personnel (both culinary and manufacturer), they offer different perspectives when examining strategies to enhance the health of the EU consumer. The entire value chain is addressed, from the manufacturer (Bonduelle), to recipe development (vehicle of vegetable presentation) up to the end user (the consumer).”

For more information about VeggiEAT, visit their project website

Appleton, K, Hemingway, A, Saulais, L, Dinnella, C, Monteleone, E, Depezay, L, Morizet, D, Perez- Cueto, F J A, Bevan, A, Hartwell, H (2016) Increasing vegetable intakes: rationale and systematic review of published interventions, (in press)

VeggiEAT is funded by the European Commission through a Marie Curie Industry and Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) grant.

This article appeared in the 2016 Bournemouth Research Chronicle. Download a copy of the magazine, or view the articles online.