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Management, Marketing and eTourismTheme Leader: Alan Fyall With an enviable blend of academic expertise and practitioner experience, ICTHR staff are recognised leaders in the field of Tourism Management & Marketing and eTourism. ICTHR has significant expertise in management marketing and eTourism as many staff have undertaken research, studies and consultancy for both the private and public sector. We specialise in tactical and strategic marketing management and we have expertise in several sectors of the tourism industry. We also have particular expertise in cultural heritage and attractions management, distribution and intermediation as well as promotion and collaboration marketing. With his groundbreaking work, Professor Dimitrios Buhalis is regarded as a world 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. Dimitrios has been involved with a number of European Commission FP5 and FP6 projects and regularly advises the UN WTO, WTTC and EU in the field of information technology and tourism. He most recently advised the Egyptian Government in the development of an eTourism Strategy. Alan Fyall is a leading author in the fields of visitor attraction and heritage management, with several extensive studies conducted for clients across the UK. In addition, his academic work on collaboration marketing has led to projects across a number of destinations, both in the UK and overseas, with suitable emerging DMO structures and forms of governance a particularly topical focus of enquiry. Alan balances his academic work in the UK with his membership of the Bournemouth Tourism Management Board, the sub-regional DMO for the UK’s premier coastal resort, while his work overseas has taken him to the Caribbean, Central Asia, Southern Africa and South East Asia, the Far East and Australasia. Professor Roger Vaughan is equally well travelled. He has researched into the development and management of tourism within the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Professor Vaughan has also researched into the attitudes of potential visitors towards museums and has undertaken research into the adoption of ICT by SMEs and the use of websites by local authorities in the United Kingdom. Professor Vaughan has also researched into the attitudes of potential visitors towards museums and has undertaken research into the adoption of ICT by SMEs and the use of websites by local authorities.
With particular expertise in India and island tourism, Dr Reddy is a recognised author in post-disaster management in the context of destinations and has already conducted work for UNESCO on this topic in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Staff have authored numerous books published by Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, Channel View and Pearson, and have authored well over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles in well-respected journals around the world. Staff are also well represented on the editorial boards of all leading journals including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research and the International Journal of Tourism Research. For further information relating to this Theme please contact Alan Fyall or on +44 (0)1202 965496. |
   
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