Gamification for Tourism - Paperback

by Feifei Xu (Editor), Dimitrios Buhalis (Editor)

This book examines the cutting-edge concept of gamification in tourism. The chapters offer valuable insights and examples of best practice and address key issues of game mechanism and game design principles. This will be useful for students and researchers in tourism marketing, smart tourism and tourism futures, as well as industry practitioners.

Author Biography

Feifei Xu is Professor in Tourism Management, Tourism Department, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. She is an Associate Editor of Tourism Review. She has worked in the tourism field for 20 years. Her research interests include sustainable tourism and eTourism with a particular focus on gamification.

Dimitrios Buhalis is a Professor, the Director of the eTourism Lab and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research at Bournemouth University Business School, UK. He is a strategic management and marketing expert with specialisation in ICT applications in the tourism and hospitality industries. His research launched the eTourism field and now focuses on SMART and real time tourism. He is the Editor in Chief of Tourism Review.