Elina Michopoulou

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Job title: Lecturer in Business Management

Email: e.michopoulou@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: derby.academia.edu/ElinaMichopoulou
Phone No: 01332 594721
Room: LS/G08

Recent publications

Publications

Academic Journals

  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D. (2012) Information Provision for Challenging markets: the case of the Accessibility Requiring Market (submitted)
  • Buhalis, D., Michopoulou, E. (2011) Information Enabled Tourism Destination Marketing: Addressing the Accessibility Market, Current Issues in Tourism, Vol. 14, (2), pp. 145-168
  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D. (2008) Performance Measures of Net-Enabled Hypercompetitive Industries: The Case of Tourism, International Journal of Information and Management, Vol. 28, (3), pp. 168-180
  • Eichhorn, V., Miller, G., Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D (2008) Enabling Access to Tourism Through Information Schemes? Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 35, (1), pp. 189-210
  • Michopoulou, E., Benetatos, T., Kanellopoulos, D. (2005). Consumer Perception on On-line Airline Ticket Purchasing: A UK Case Study. Journal of Finance and Informatics, 1 (1): 1-12

Book Chapters

  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D. (2011) Stakeholder Analysis of Accessible Tourism. In Buhalis, D., Darcy, S., (eds). Accessible Tourism: Concept and Issues, Bristol: Multichannel Publications
  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D. (2011) Technology Platforms and Challenges. In Buhalis, D., Darcy, S., (eds). Accessible Tourism: Concepts and Issue, Bristol: Multichannel Publications

Conference Papers

  • Michopoulou, E. & Pappas, N. (2011) "User Acceptance of Social Media for Travel and Tourism". Proceedings of the World Research Summit for Tourism and Hospitality Conference in SAR Hong Kong, China: Elsevier. 
  • Michopoulou, E., and Buhalis, D., Michailidis, S., Ambrose, I. (2007). "Destination Management systems: Technical Challenges in Developing an e-Tourism Platform for accessible Tourism in Europe". In Frew, A.  (ed), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism. ENTER 2007. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Vienna-New York: Springer. 
  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D., Michailidis, S., Ambrose, I.  (2006). "Incorporating User Requirements of the disabled Traveller Market in Developing an Inclusive e-Marketplace for Accessible Tourism in Europe: Technical Challenges". In Cunningham P. and Cunningham, M (eds.), Innovation and the knowledge Economy, e-Challenges 2006. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Netherlands: IOS Press.
  • Michopoulou, E., and Buhalis, D. (2006). "Developing a One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism Europe [OSSATE Portal] for the Disabled Tourism Market: Technical challenges". In Cutting Edge Conference 2006. University of Surrey, June 2006, Guildford, U.K
  • Michopoulou, E., and Buhalis, D. (2006). "Developing an eTourism Platform for Accessible tourism in Eurore: Technical challenges". In Hitz, M., Sigala, M., and MurphyJ., (eds), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism. ENTER 2006. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, Vienna-New York: Springer. 
  • Buhalis, D., Michopoulou, E., Michailidis, S., Ambrose, I.  (2006). "Developing a One-Stop-Shop for the European Disabled Tourism Market: Technical and Business Challenges". In To the city and Beyond, CAUTHE 2006,  Proceedings of CAUTHE International Conference in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Buhalis, D., Michopoulou, E., Michailidis, S., Ambrose, I.  (2005). "Developing a One-Stop-Shop for the European Disabled Tourism Market: Technical and Business Challenges". In Cunningham P. and Cunningham, M (eds.), Innovation and the knowledge Economy, e-Challenges 2005. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Netherlands: IOS Press.
  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D. (2004). "Web Analytics and e-Metrics in Tourism". In A. Frew (ed), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism. ENTER 2004. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference in Cairo, Egypt, Vienna-New York: Springer.

Reviews

  • European Conference of Information Systems 2006 (ECIS)
  • ENTER 2011, 18th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism

Presentations,  Reports, and other publications

  • Michopoulou, E.  (2010)  "Addressing Disabled User Requirements: A Destination Perspective", Invited presentation to Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism. ENTER 2010, 10th - 12th of February, Lugano, Switzerland.
  • Buhalis, D., Eichhorn, V., Miller, G., &. Michopoulou, E. (2007), "Strategy for Commercial Exploitation, Branding and Promotion ('e-Service Exploitation Plan)", D-6.5, One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe (OSSATE) Project Report under the European Commission eContent Programme
  • Michopoulou, E., Buhalis, D., & Van der Heijden, H. (2007), "On-line Questionnaire and Associated Results", D-5.3, One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe (OSSATE) Project Report under the European Commission eContent Programme
  • Vos, S., & Michopoulou, E. 2006, "Inventory of accessibility schemes and data sets within the EU-tourism sector", D-2.1, One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe (OSSATE) Project Report under the European Commission eContent Programme
  • Buhalis, D., Eichhorn, V., Michopoulou, E. & Miller, G. (2005), "Accessibility Market and Stakeholder Analysis", One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe (OSSATE) Project Report under the European Commission eContent Programme
  • Buhalis, D., Eichhorn, V., Michopoulou, E. & Van der  Heijden, H. (2005), "external Stakeholders' Group: Organisation, Membership, Activities and Review Protocol", D-5.1, One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe (OSSATE) Project Report under the European Commission eContent Programme

Faculty: Buxton

School: School of Culture and Lifestyle

Subject Area: Business and Management

Teaching responsibilities

  • Introduction to Human Resources (UG1)
  • Research Methods (UG2)
  • Advanced Consumer Behaviour (UG3)
  • PR and e-Marketing (UG3)
  • Marketing and PR (Masters)

Research interests

  • e-Tourism
  • e-Marketing
  • Online performance measurement
  • Web analytics
  • Accessible Tourism
  • Tourism Management
  • Tourism Marketing

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

  • Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy, since 2010
  • Member of European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT), since 2007
  • Member of European Design for all eAccessibility Network (EDeAN), since 2008
  • Member of Tourism Research Information Network (TRINet), since 2008

Undergraduate qualifications

  • BSc Tourism Management, Technological Educational Institute (Τ.Ε.Ι.) of Patras, Greece

Postgraduate qualifications

  • MSc e-Tourism, University of Surrey

Research posts

InstitutionProjectDates
Research Officer in e-Tourism Application Development and EvaluationOSSATE, funded by the eContent programme of the European Commission 2005-2007

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