[AISWorld] Announcement: A Virtual Seminar on Metaverse and Tourism Marketing

[Yogesh K. Dwivedi]

*Date & Time:* 22nd March 2023; 1 PM UK Time; 06:30 PM IST

*Seminar Title:* Metaverse and Tourism Marketing

*Speaker:* Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University Business
School, UK

*Zoom Registration Link:*
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuc-uspz8sE9xKdNO6ljhqVeAKCf38STS4

*About Speaker: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis* is Director of the eTourism
Lab and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Tourism and
Hospitality Research, at Bournemouth University Business School in England.
He is a Strategic Management and Marketing expert with specialisation in
Information Communication Technology applications in the Tourism, Travel,
Hospitality and Leisure industries. He is the Editor in Chief of Tourism
Review and the Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Tourism Management
and Marketing. Professor Buhalis has written and co-edited more than 25
books and 300 scientific articles and is recognised as a Highly Cited
Researcher by Clarivate™. He is featured in the Stanford University’s
database of the world’s top 2% of scientists with more than 57000 citations
and h-index 102 on Google Scholar. For more information, books, articles
and presentations see www.buhalis.com.

This seminar is organised under an ongoing seminar series on “*The Digital
Future for Business & Society: Emerging Perspectives on the Metaverse*”.
This seminar series aims to present various perspectives from a number of
leading expert speakers to highlight the opportunities and challenges posed
by the rapid emergence of the metaverse. The seminar series will offer a
timely and thought-provoking insight to the metaverse, its impact on the
future of business, management and societal factors impacted by the growth,
direction and widespread adoption of this new immersive technology.

This series is hosted jointly by Digital Futures for Sustainable Business &
Society Research Group, School of Management, Swansea University, UK
and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management Pune, India (Constituent of
Symbiosis International (Deemed University), India). The series is
supported by: Digital Marketing and Analytics SIG – Academy of Marketing
(UK); Grenoble IAE-Graduate School of Management - a Grenoble INP school of
the University of Grenoble Alpes; The e-Business and e-Government SIG -
British Academy of Management (UK); and The UK Academy for Information
Systems (UKAIS). Further details about this seminar series can be found at:
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/research/researchcentres/metaverse-seminar-series/

*Previous Seminars*:

The third seminar (on Metaverse: On the human aspects, privacy and value
destruction) in this series was delivered by Mr Jared Offei Lartey &
Professor Anders Gustafsson, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. This
talk is available to access freely at https://youtu.be/cu5TttSFMLE

The second seminar (on Engaging users in the Metaverse Applications in
different industries) in this series was delivered by Professor Carlos
Flavián, The University of Zaragoza, Spain. This talk is available to
access freely at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4uaIAYohA&t=3s

The first seminar (on Surfing the Internet and Diving in the Metaverse: A
Status Quo Analysis) in this series was delivered by Professor Philipp
Rauschnabel, The Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany. For a limited
period only, this talk is available to access freely at
https://youtu.be/PNuasGZhzWU


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Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, PhD
Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation
School of Management, Room #323
Swansea University, Bay Campus
Fabian Bay, Swansea, SA1 8EN, Wales, UK.
TEL (Office): +44 (0) 1792 602340
Email: y.k.dwivedi at swansea.ac.uk ; ykdwivedi at gmail.com
Home Page:http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/

Distinguished Research Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Business
Management, Pune & Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune,India

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Announcement: *A Virtual Seminar Series on The Digital Future for Business
& Society: Emerging Perspectives on the Metaverse: *
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/research/researchcentres/metaverse-seminar-series/