| Ian participated in the New Transformational Technology panel discussion at the conference. Dr. Ian Yeoman is the world's only professional futurologist dedicated to specializing in travel and tourism. Ian learned his trade as the scenario planner for VisitScotland, where he established the process of futures thinking within the organisation using a variety of techniques including economic modelling, trends analysis and scenario construction. Today he is a leading academic researcher at Victoria University of Wellington and the European Tourism Futures Institute, Netherlands. Ian has published widely on the future of tourism, including Tomorrow's Tourist (Routledge 2008), Tourism and Demography (Goodfellow 2011). His forthcoming book, 2050: Tomorrow's Tourism addresses the three main factors influencing and shaping the future of tourism: wealth, technology and resources. 2050: Tomorrow's Tourism constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as hotel design, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation. This is a blue skies thinking book about the future of tourism and a thought provoking analytical commentary. For further details about Ian, visit www.tomorrowstourism.com |
