[AISWorld] CFP: Conference on Social Media in Hospitality and Tourism, 21-22 October 2011, Verona, Italy

[Marianna Sigala]

CALL FOR PAPERS 

21- 22 October 2011 Conference on Social Media in Hospitality and Tourism. The conference is sponsored by Virginia Tech University in cooperation with MCI University in Innsbruck and the College of Charleston.
The Web2.0 medium is having an enormous influence not only in the way hospitality and tourism organizations market themselves, but for researchers themselves. The Conference will bring together the leading researchers in the field as well as its most innovative industry leaders to explore opportunities therein.

Keynote speakers will include:

Philip Vaughn is the CEO & Co-Founder of Raveable, an award winning travel site recognized for its innovative hotel ratings and reviews. Prior to co-founding Raveable, Philip led a team as a Microsoft Group Manager in the creation of Microsoft SQL Server currently the world's most popular database. Before Microsoft, he first saw the potential of organizing customer opinions across product dimensions while working at The Gallup Organization. In his minuscule spare time, Philip enjoys the company of his amazing wife Sue and their son Nathan.

Greg Kihlstrom is an internationally-recognized Interactive Designer whose work has won international awards, been published in books and magazines and design websites. He is currently Chief Creative Officer at Carousel30 Interactive in Washington DC a digital agency with a strong social media and search engine marketing focus, in addition to interactive design and development capabilities. Greg has been at the forefront of emerging trends in marketing on the Web ever since his days being involved in some of the first online grassroots marketing initiatives in the nineties. He has continued to innovate in the area of online marketing and advertising through social media outreach, search engine marketing for a variety of industries including tourism and hospitality.

The Conference itself will be held in Verona, Italy with many rich opportunities to explore and experience both before and after the conference. It will be a beautiful time to be in the Alps.

There will be several Best Paper Awards as well as a special issue of the Journal of Vacation Marketing derived from the papers submitted/presented. All papers will be reviewed by a Scientific Committee who can be found at:

http://www.cpe.vt.edu/mpd.htmsocialmedia/



Important Deadlines

Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2011 

Notification of decision: April 28, 2011 

Early bird registration deadline: July 15, 2011 

Deadline for corrected files to be sent for inclusion in the proceedings: October 1, 2011 


 

Conference Chairs

John C. Crotts, Ph. D., is a Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the School of Business at the College of Charleston

Vincent Magnini, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of hospitality marketing in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech in the U.S.A.

Dr. Anita Zehrer is deputy head and lecturer at the School of Tourism and Leisure of the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI). 



Scientific Committee

  Roldolfo Baggio, Bocconi University, Italy 

  Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University, UK 

  Antonella Capriello, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy 

  Evangelos Christou, University of Aegean, Greece 

  Cihan Cobanoglu, University of South Florida, USA 

  Daniel Connolly, University of Denver, USA 

  Boyd Davis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA 

  Christy Dena, Universe Creation 101, Australia 

  Roman Egger, University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria 

  Daniel Fesenmaier, Temple University, USA 

  Matthias Fuchs, Mid Sweden University, Sweden 

  Ulrike Gretzel, Texas A&M University, USA 

  Jay Kandampully, Ohio State University, USA 

  Rob Law, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China 

  Yuping Liu-Thompkins, Old Dominion University, USA 

  Jane Machin, Virginia Tech, USA 

  Anna Mattila, Pennsylvania State University, USA 

  Ken McCleary, Virginia Tech, USA 

  Bing Pan, College of Charleston, USA 

  Philip Pearce, James Cook University, Australia 

  Richard Perdue, Virginia Tech, USA 

  Mariana Sigala, University of Aegean, Greece 

  Tracy Tuten, East Carolina University, USA 

  Muzaffer Uysal, Virginia Tech, USA 

  Pamela Weaver, Virginia Tech, USA 



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Marianna Sigala, PhD
Assistant Professor of Service Management in Tourism
The Business Administration Department
University of the Aegean
Michalon 8. Chios, 
Greece, GR-82100
 
http://www.ba.aegean.gr/m.sigala
Tel:  +30 22710 35160
Fax: +30 22710 35165
 
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