Alessandro Inversini is senior lecturer at Bournemouth University Faculty of Management (United Kingdom). His research interests are where communication, tourism and new media overlap, ranging from design to evaluation of tourism websites, from online communication to branding and reputation, from eCommerce to eLearning.
Roland Schegg is a professor at the Institute of Tourism at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland/Valais (HES-SO Valais). Between 2000 and 2004 he was with the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL). He earned his BS from the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH) in Zurich and his PhD from the University of Geneva. His research interests are in the field of eTourism (online distribution, eService metrics, technology adoption, web 2.0 and mobile technologies in tourism).