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Dimitrios Buhalis
Dimitrios Buhalis is a reader in business information management, a course leader MSc in tourism marketing and leader of e-tourism research at the School of Management University of Surrey (UK). Dr. Dimitrios is also adjunct professor of the MBA in Hospitality Management at the Institut de Management Hotelier International (Cornell University-Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales ESSEC) in Paris. He also teaches regularly on postgraduate courses around the world. Dimitrios has been an active researcher in the areas of ICTs and tourism and he was the UniS-based principle investigator for a number of projects including the European projects FP5 SMART-UP (ecommerce and e-learning for hospitality SMEs), Harmonise (harmonisation of standards in tourism), FP6 NoE EPOCH (ICTs for cultural heritage) as well as for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project eLearning for Hospitality Professionals and the World Travel Tourism Council project eTourism Stakeholders. He is a registered European Commission IST evaluator and reviewer and he was the cluster rapporter for the IST tourism projects for the period 2000-2004. He is also a specialist reviewer in Hospitality, Leisure, Recreation, Sport, and Tourism for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in the UK and external examiner at the Swansea Institute, University of Wales and at the University of Greenwich. He serves as vice chairman on the International Federation of Information Technology and Tourism (IFITT) Board and he is the chair of events and meetings and a member of the executive council of the Tourism Society. Dimitrios was the immediate past chairman of the Association of Tourism Teachers and Trainers (ATTT). He has editorial roles in a number of academic journals and he has written, edited, or co-edited 8 books on e-tourism, tourism strategic issues, and distribution channels of tourism.
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