This year, Summer School is arranged by the University of Eastern Finland and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.
The annual IFITT Summer School will be held in Helsinki, Finland June 5th-7th, IFITT Finland seminar on June 8th on destination management and marketing, held in the beautiful Suomenlinna-fortress, a unique UNESCO World Heritage site. These event follows the principles of IFITT, bringing together both the industry and academics in a relaxed environment to further develop the state of art in eTourism.
This year keynote speakers include:
- Professor Christian Laesser – Professor of Tourism and Service Management at the University of St. Gallen and Director of the Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance at the University of St. Gallen, Managing Director of the SBB Lab, Editor-in-chief of “Tourism Review“, member of the board of the Swiss Transport Research Conference (annual conference), Secretary General of AIEST (International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism), Secretary General of the Swiss Association for Transport Sciences, member of a number of scientific associations. Professor Laesser is a member in a number of company boards in the tourism industry and has published hundreds of papers in esteemed academic journals.
- Professor Dimitrios Buhalis – Strategic Management and Marketing expert with specialisation in Technology and Tourism. He is currently Director of the eTourism Lab at the School of Tourism at Bournemouth University. He was also the President of the International Federation of Information Technology for Travel and Tourism (IFITT) for two terms. He is widely 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 recently included accessible tourism in his research portfolio. He has worked around the world and has written 18 books, including Accessible Tourism Concepts and Issues, Best practice in Accessible Tourism, 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) and more than 100 articles.
This year, Summer School is arranged by the University of Eastern Finland and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.
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