Dimitrios Buhalis

Dr Dimitrios Buhalis is an academic and consultant specialising in strategic marketing and management for tourism and in particular in the use of Information Communication Technologies for Tourism or eTourism. He is currently Established Chair in Tourism at the Bournemouth University. Professor Buhalis is responsible for eTourism research and for incorporating eTourism in all aspects of tourism teaching and research.

He was previously programme leader of the MSc in eTourism and MSc in Tourism Marketing, leader of eTourism Research, and leader in Business Information Management at the School of Management, University of Surrey, where he was elected member of the University Senate (2003-2007). Buhalis is also Adjunct Professor for the MBA in Hospitality Management at the IMHI (Cornell University-École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales) in Paris, and Professor Associado at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has been teaching tourism related subjects in more than 30 universities around the world. He is regarded as an expert in the impacts of ICTs in the tourism industry and eTourism, the management of tourism distribution channels, as well as strategic tourism marketing and management. Buhalis has been involved with a number of European Commission FP5 and FP6 projects and regularly advises the World Tourism Organisation, the World Tourism and Travel Council, and the European Commission in the field of information technology and tourism. Buhalis is still an active tourism practitioner, listing the positions of marketing manager and webmaster for his family Hotel Segas, and non-executive director of yourholidays.com, an online travel agency.

He has written or co-edited a total of 10 books, including two books on the future of tourism, Tourism Business Frontiers and Tourism Management Dynamics, published by Butterworth-Heinemann. He has also written eTourism: Strategic Information Technology for Tourism, which was published by Pearson (Prentice Hall/Financial Times), Tourism Distribution Channels (Thomson), managing alliances in the global hospitality and tourism industry, and a series three books on IT and tourism. He has also published more than 80 articles in scholarly journals, books, conference proceedings and consultancy reports. He served as Chairman of the scientific committee of the ENTER'98, 'Â’99, and 2000 conferences on Tourism and Information Technology, as well as ENTER Destinations Chair for 2002 and ENTER Overall Chair in 2003.

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