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FSD mountain.jpg We are pleased to announce that Frederic Dimanche, Marketing professor at SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis, France, has accepted our invitation to join the BEST EN International Advisory Board.

Frederic has been with BEST EN since the beginning, as he participated in the very first Think Tank in South Africa in 2001. In 2012, he hosted the Think Tank together with SKEMA and la Cité Européenne de la Culture et du Tourisme Durable in Greoux les Bains.

Frederic is a welcome addition to our existing board members, Pauline Sheldon, Larry Dwyer, Leo Jago and John Tribe, bringing his expertise in destination marketing and sustainable tourism to the Board. The International Advisory Board comprised of renowned senior academics in the field supports the Executive Committee by, among other things, giving advice on the future development of the organization, and helping to identify cutting-edge Think Tank topics and host locations.


List of Articles
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4 Destination pledges to build an emotional connection with visitors file Nov 19, 2019

BESTEN committee member Dr Julia N. Albrecht, University of Otago, New Zealand, and social enterprise GOOD Travel co-founder Eliza Raymond have investigated tourism planners’ and managers’ motivations behind visitor pledges and related imple...

3 Greenwich Think Tank Keynote Annouced file Feb 19, 2020

Our First Keynote will be Professor Ko Keons, Ko Koens is a Professor of New Urban Tourism at Inholland University of Applied Sciences. In addition he works at Breda University of Applied Sciences and is a research fellow at the University o...

2 Greenwich 2020 Second Keynote file Mar 02, 2020

We are pleased to confirm our second keynote speaker for the 2020 Think Tank being held at the University of Greenwich, Uk, June 23-26 on the theme of Smart Tourism for Sustainable Destinations. Laura Aalto is CEO of Helsinki Marketing, a co...

1 THINK TANK Postponed to June 2021 file Apr 30, 2020

In the current COVID 19 era, travel is mostly impossible, definitely unwise and, for many, unethical. This we have with the support of our Think Tank hosts at the University of Greenwich that we should postpone the Think Tank on Smart Touris...

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