Professor Dimitrios Buhalis is a Strategic Management and Marketing expert with specialisation in Information Communication Technology, Smart Environments and Interactive Marketing, He is an expert in technology applications in the Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Leisure industries. He is Professor of Smart Tourism at Bournemouth University Business School. He is currently Visiting Professor at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
He is Editor in Chief of the most established Journal in Tourism: Tourism Review, an SSCI Journal [IF=5.947] in its 76th volume. He is also the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Professor Buhalis’ research is referenced widely, being the 2rd most cited for tourism and 1st most cited for hospitality 18th on strategy and 30th in Marketing on Google Scholar with more than 53000 citations and h-index 100. He has taught in more than 50 Universities around the world and delivers more than 30 keynotes per year.
For the period January 2016- September 2019, Buhalis was the Head of Department of Tourism and Hospitality, at Bournemouth University. During this period the Department was ranked #8 (2018) and #10 (2019) in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019: Hospitality & Leisure Management as well as #9 (2017) #12 (2018) #10 (2019 & 2020) in the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects – Hospitality & Tourism and #3 in the Guardian University guide 2019. Dimitrios is a Founding Member and past President (2010-2014) of the International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism (IFITT). He served as the First Vice President of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (2017-2019) and as Executive Board Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Affiliate Members (2013-2015 and 2017-2019).
Dimitrios current research focus includes: Real Time and Nowness, Smart Tourism and Smart Hospitality, Social Media Context and Mobile Marketing (SoCoMo), Augmented Reality, Technology enhanced Experience Management and Personalisation, Reputation and Social Media Strategies, Accessibility and Special Diet (Alergens) Tourism. Professor Buhalis is well known international speaker on trends, technology, marketing, tourism and Hospitality. Professor Buhalis is an inspirational forward thinker that undertakes cutting edge research, develops innovations and makes a major impact to global society. For more information, books, articles and presentations see www.buhalis.com.
Professor Buhalis’ Academic and Research Interests
Professor Buhalis specialises in strategic management and marketing with the use of disruptive technologies. For the last 30 years he has been at the forefront of technological innovation for strategic competitive advantage. He specialises on the tourism, leisure and hospitality industries. His research has a global relevance and impacts both government policy and industrial competitiveness.
What People Say
Prof Buhalis brings a immense depth of academic experience to joint industry / govt / academic relationships and projects and his creative approach to communications and audience engagement is refreshing and effective.
His practical and calm approach to delivering on projects and managing challenging stakeholder groups means that the client does not need to worry about the logistics or sensitivities in the audience and can focus on the desired outcome and content.
He has contributed to the design of the technological platform of the online travel agency medhotels.com which was developed as the first innovative online B2B platform connecting leisure travel products and hotels to travel agencies, consequently sold to Lastminute.com. His contribution was valuable as well at the backed up by Barclays Ventures Youtravel.com later acquired by FTI.
Professor Buhalis was also instrumental in the marketing strategy and the development of the systems for Aquis Hotels and resorts which until recently operated 14 hotel properties in Greece. In particular he designed a very innovative experiential interface to support customer experience.
Meet Dimitrios
Due to COVID-19 Dimitrios contribute to on line conferences around the world
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- Tourism Review: Agenda 2030 CALL FOR PAPERS: Virtual special issue to be published in early 2023 November 30, 2021Tourism Review: Agenda 2030 CALL FOR PAPERS: Virtual special issue to be published in early 2023 The global tourism and hospitality have been suffering from the effects of COVID. For the first time ever, it is so clear to everybody how important and tourism is for consumers and their mental health. Governments have also realised the importance […]
- Perceived COVID-19 impacts and travel avoidance: application of protection motivation theory" November 22, 2021NEW TOURISM REVIEW PAPER Nazneen, S., Xu, H., Ud Din, N. and Karim, R. (2022), "Perceived COVID-19 impacts and travel avoidance: application of protection motivation theory", Tourism Review, Vol.77. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-03-2021-0165The COVID-19 pandemic and the travellers’ behaviour towards travel risk is an emerging issue. Nonetheless, the travellers’ perceived COVID-19 impacts, travel risk perception, health and safety […]
- La, L., Xu, F., & Buhalis, D. (2021). Knowledge mapping of sharing accommodation: A bibliometric analysis. Tourism Management Perspectives November 18, 2021NEW PAPER La, L., Xu, F., & Buhalis, D. (2021). Knowledge mapping of sharing accommodation: A bibliometric analysis. Tourism Management Perspectives, 40, 100897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100897Highlights•An intuitive and synthesised understanding of knowledge structure in the sharing accommodation studies.•Seven clusters of research themes related to sharing accommodation identified.•A comprehensive framework and directions for future research.AbstractThis study aims to examine […]
- Greek Beer NISSOS : Four new international awards at the same time for four NISOS beers, in the International Beer Challenge 2021 November 18, 2021Four new international awards at the same time for four NISSOS beers, in the International Beer Challenge 2021NISSOS GREEK ISLAND PILSNER , GOLD MedalNISSOS APOCALYΨΗ, GOLD MedalNISSOS 7 BEAUFORT, BRONZE Medal NISSOS ALL - DAY , ORGANIC, GLUTEN-FREE, BRONZE MedalThe International Beer Challenge is held every year in England and this year, it celebrates its 25th anniversary! In the last quarter of the century, the most famous beers and breweries in the world have participated in it. The IBC […]
- Tourism Review: Volume 76 Issue 5 November 17, 2021Tourism Review: Volume 76 Issue 5Subjects:Tourism & hospitalityTourism development & planningSubscribe to table of contents alertsRSS feedTable of contentsBranded premiums in tourism destination promotionShasha Wang, Arnold Japutra, Sebastián MolinilloThe purpose of this paper is to test the influence of branded premiums or branded free gifts (e.g. a free of charge suitcase of a well-recognised brand) on tourism…HTMLPDF (229 […]