Peer-to-peer Accommodation and Community Resilience: Implications for Sustainable Development

Anna Farmaki is Assistant Professor in Tourism Management at the School of Management and Economics at the Cyprus University of Technology. She has a PhD in Marketing from Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests lie in the areas of tourism planning and development and tourist behaviour. She has published extensively in high ranked, peer-reviewed journals including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management and International Journal of Hospitality Management amongst others.

Dimitri Ioannides is chaired professor of human geography at Mid-Sweden University. His PhD in Urban Planning and Policy Development is from Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. Prior to coming to Sweden, he taught for several years in the Department of Geography, Geology and Planning at Missouri State University where he was promoted to full professor. Most recently, he has served as Director of the European Tourism Research Institute at Mid-Sweden University. His research areas include sustainable tourism development, the economic geography of the tourism industry and tourism planning and development (especially in peripheral and ultra-peripheral regions).

Stella Kladou is Assistant Professor at the Department of Tourism Administration at Bogaziçi University in Turkey. She holds a PhD in Tourism Marketing from Hellenic Open University, in collaboration with Istanbul Bilgi University and the University of Rome La Sapienza. She has published in prominent publishers and journals, worked in national and international projects and granted funding from national and international bodies. Her main research interests include place branding, cultural tourism and tourism planning and development.