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.

Publications

Foreword
Foreword
Dimitrios Buhalis. © 2018. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Handbook of Research on Technological Developments for Cultural Heritage and eTourism Applications.
A Modified Fuzzy Hierarchical TOPSIS Model for Hotel Website Evaluation
A Modified Fuzzy Hierarchical TOPSIS Model for Hotel Website Evaluation
Shanshan Qi, Rob Law, Dimitrios Buhalis. © 2015. 21 pages.
The performance of commercial websites is a critical issue that has a significant effect on consumers' online decision-making. This study develops and applies a fuzzy model...
Empirical Evaluation of Smartphone Augmented Reality Browsers in an Urban Tourism Destination Context
Empirical Evaluation of Smartphone Augmented Reality Browsers in an Urban Tourism Destination Context
Zornitza Yovcheva, Dimitrios Buhalis, Christos Gatzidis, Corné P.J.M. van Elzakker. © 2015. 22 pages.
Today, exposure to new and unfamiliar environments is a necessary part of daily life. Effective communication of location-based information through location-based services has...
Empirical Evaluation of Smartphone Augmented Reality Browsers in an Urban Tourism Destination Context
Empirical Evaluation of Smartphone Augmented Reality Browsers in an Urban Tourism Destination Context
Zornitza Yovcheva, Dimitrios Buhalis, Christos Gatzidis, Corné P.J.M. van Elzakker. © 2014. 22 pages.
Today, exposure to new and unfamiliar environments is a necessary part of daily life. Effective communication of location-based information through location-based services has...
Social Media Impact on Holiday Travel Planning: The Case of the Russian and the FSU Markets
Social Media Impact on Holiday Travel Planning: The Case of the Russian and the FSU Markets
John Fotis, Dimitrios Buhalis, Nicos Rossides. © 2013. 20 pages.
The impact of social media on the travel industry is predicted to be tremendous, especially on its holiday travel segment. Although there is a plethora of studies concentrating...
A Modified Fuzzy Hierarchical TOPSIS Model for Hotel Website Evaluation
A Modified Fuzzy Hierarchical TOPSIS Model for Hotel Website Evaluation
Shanshan Qi, Rob Law, Dimitrios Buhalis. © 2013. 20 pages.
The performance of commercial websites is a critical issue that has a significant effect on consumers’ online decision-making. This study develops and applies a fuzzy model to...
Social Media Impact on Holiday Travel Planning: The Case of the Russian and the FSU Markets
Social Media Impact on Holiday Travel Planning: The Case of the Russian and the FSU Markets
John Fotis, Dimitrios Buhalis, Nicos Rossides. © 2011. 19 pages.
The impact of social media on the travel industry is predicted to be tremendous, especially on its holiday travel segment. Although there is a plethora of studies concentrating...
Virtual Travel Community: Bridging Travellers and Locals
Virtual Travel Community: Bridging Travellers and Locals
Jin Young Chung, Dimitrios Buhalis. © 2010. 15 pages.
With the rapid development of Web 2.0 influence in tourism, this chapter aims to examine the current state of virtual travel community (VTC) studies, and to offer an additional...
E-Tourism and Digital Government
E-Tourism and Digital Government
Dimitrios Buhalis. © 2008. 10 pages.
The recent developments in information communication technologies (ICTs) and the emergence of the Internet, in particular, as a mainstream communications and transaction media...
Foreword
Foreword
Dimitrios Buhalis. © 2007. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry.