Description
This book brings together global experts in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate providers of travel, transport, accommodation, leisure and tourism services to serve guests with disabilities, seniors and the wider markets that require good accessibility.
Author: Dimitrios Buhalis
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 02/09/2012
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781845412524
ISBN10: 1845412524
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries | Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
- Social Science | People with Disabilities
- Business & Economics | Marketing | General
About the Author
Professor Dimitrios Buhalis is a Strategic Management and Marketing expert with specialisation in Technology and Tourism at Bournemouth University. Professor Buhalis is leading eTourism research and he is a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and the President of the International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism (IFITT).
Dr Simon Darcy is an Associate Professor and Research Director in the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney. Simon's research and teaching expertise is in sport, tourism and diversity management. He currently holds research grants investigating organisational responses to accessible tourism, sports management practices and protected area visitor management systems.
Ivor Ambrose is the Managing Director and co-founder of ENAT, the European Network for Accessible Tourism. He has worked for over 30 years as a researcher, project manager, development and policy advisor in the fields of building design and evaluation, public housing, accessibility and assistive technologies for disabled and elderly people, accessible tourism and information systems.