is an innovative tourism and hospitality researcher, teacher and adviser that conceptualises technology-enabled strategic management and marketing solutions for tourism and hospitality organisations on a global scale.

He is currently Established Chair in Tourism, Deputy Director of the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research at Bournemouth University and Professorial Observer at the Bournemouth University Senate. Professor Buhalis is leading eTourism research and is working with the Bournemouth team for introducing technology in all aspects of tourism research and teaching. He was previously Programme Leader MSc in Tourism Marketing and MSc in eTourism, Reader in Business Information Management, Leader of eTourism Research and member of the Senate at the University of Surrey. He has been Adjunct Professor at ESSEC in Paris, Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China,  Professor Associado at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Visiting Professor and Member of the University Assembly at Modul University in Vienna, Austria. He has written or co-edited a total of 12 books, including Tourism Business Frontiers and Tourism Management Dynamics published by Elsevier, eTourism: Strategic Information Technology for Tourism published by Pearson (Prentice Hall/Financial Times) and Tourism Distribution Channels (Thomson), Managing alliances in the global hospitality and tourism industry as well as a series of three books on IT and Tourism. Dimitrios has also served as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the ENTER'98, ’99, and 2000 conferences on Tourism and Information Technology, as well as ENTER Destinations Chair for 2002 and ENTER Overall Chair in 2003 and 2009. He has served as Vice President of the International Federation of Information Technology for Travel and Tourism (IFITT) of which he is a founding member whilst he often Chairs conferences for EyeForTravel.

Dimitrios graduated in Business Administration from the University of the Aegean in Greece, where he was also a Researcher specialising in Tourism and Technology. He gained his MSc in Tourism Management (with Distinction) and PhD (in Tourism Management and Marketing) degrees from the Department of Management Studies for the Tourism and Hotel Industries, University of Surrey.

He is regarded as an expert in the impacts of ICTs in the tourism industry, the management of tourism distribution channels as well as in strategic tourism marketing and management. He has also been involved in teaching, advising, developing distance learning material, external examining or examining research degrees for Universities and other organisations in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Portugal, France, Finland, Norway, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, Romania, Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, New Zealand, Ivory Coast, Egypt and Indonesia. Dimitrios 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 eTourism. His industrial experience includes managerial roles in the Aegean tourism industry, as well as 15 years of international tourism and hospitality research and consultancy. His latest assignment was to develop an eTourism Strategy for the Egyptian Tourism Authority and the Ministry of Tourism in Egypt as part of the Austrian Twinning project whilst he recently completed a project on the development of Hotel School for the Government of Andorra. Dimitrios is still an active tourism practitioner, listing the positions of Marketing Manager and web master for his family Hotel Segas in Loutraki, Board of Director of Aquis Hotels and Resorts SA and non-Executive Director of yourholidays.com travel agency in his activities.

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