Innsbruck Trip For Tourism Lecturer
21 January 2013
A Buxton tourism lecturer will present her findings at a research conference in Innsbruck, Austria.
A University of Derby Buxton tourism academic will present her latest research findings at a prestigious conference in Austria this January, along with one of her former students.
Tourism lecturer Elina Michoploulou and Nina Enter, who graduated from Buxton with an MA in Tourism Management in 2012, will present their paper 'An Investigation On The Acceptance of Facebook By Travellers For Travel Planning' at the Enter 2013 conference in Innsbruck, Austria, - an international conference organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) - on January 23 (2013).
They will present to members of the tourism research community amongst keynote speakers Aoife Desmont from Facebook, James Van Thiel from Google, Josef Margreiter, Director General of Tirol Marketing, and Marco Fanton Director of Social Media for Spain's Meliá Hotels International.
The Buxton paper will reveal the results of research into people's intentions to use Facebook for travel planning purposes, and the qualitative results of interviews with these individuals into their use of social media for travel.
Elina Michoploulou is a lecturer on BA (Hons) and MA Tourism Management degrees at the University of Derby Buxton.
For more on the Enter 2013 conference visit www.enter-2013.org
For more on studying tourism at the University of Derby Buxton visit www.derby.ac.uk/udb
