Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism 7th ICSIMAT, Athenian Riviera, Greece, 2018

Androniki Kavoura
is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration, University of West Attica, Greece. She completed her MSc in Media Management and her PhD on Communication and Culture at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. She has participated in various research projects and her research interests include social media, branding, advertising, and culture. She co-chairs the International Conference on Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism and she is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Strategic Innovative Marketing.

Efstathios Kefallonitis
is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Oswego. He received his doctorate in marketing management from Cranfield University in the UK. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in brand experience management at the University of the Arts in London and holds a Master's degree from Goldsmiths, University of London. Appointed in August 2011, he teaches courses in Marketing Principles, Marketing Management, and Advertising and Promotion. He serves as the Managing Director of branding.aero in New York City, specializing in aviation industry branding.

Apostolos Giovanis
is an Associate Professor in Technology Marketing at the Department of Business Administration, Athens University of Applied Science (AUAS), Greece. He holds a Diploma in Engineering Management, an MSc in Management, and a PhD in Marketing Management (New Product Diffusion and Adoption), all from Technical University of Crete, Greece. In addition to AUAS, he has taught at the Hellenic Open University, the Technical University of Crete, and the Piraeus University of Applied Science. He is a member of the EuroMed Business Research Institute (EMRBI) (chairman of the Brand Research Committee) and the Greek Marketing Academy. Before joining academia, he held several managerial positions in the field of marketing in the service industry. His research interests are primarily in the areas of technology-mediated services marketing, customer relationship management, customer-brand relationships, and innovation management, and his academic work has been published in various scientific journals.