Finding information about tourist attractions, you might think, is fairly easy. There are brochures and tourist information offices, websites, libraries, travel books and magazines. But in 20 years will you be using the same information sources?
On Wednesday at Bournemouth University, one of the leading academics on tourism and the rise of the internet in tourism was crystal ball gazing as to what tourists might be using in the future. Dimitrios Buhalis may be a name you have never come across but this man, in the last 20 years, has been consulted by more tourist authorities, hotels, and destinations than I have probably had hot dinners.
So what does he see for us in the future?

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