Professor Frew has been active in the hospitality and tourism fields for the past 25 years specialising in the research, application and management implications of information and communication technologies. Currently he holds the Queen Margaret University College Professorial Chair in IT and Tourism and is Director of the Scottish International Tourism Industries centre for research and knowledge transfer (SITI). He has published widely, presented in numerous international forums and is a regular keynote speaker on trends in ICT research in travel and tourism. Andy is involved in a number of other professional associations including being president of the Hospitality Information Technology Association (HITA), Fellow of the Tourism Society. and Advisory Board member of the Hospitality and Finance Technology Professionals (HFTP) and Advisory Board for EURHOTEC-HOSTEC. He has had widespread involvement in numerous think tanks and development forums including most recently, industry benchmarking in collaboration with the WTO. He has acted as ENTER research chair 2003 and 2004 and is continuing editor for the ENTER research proceedings.

In addition to mainstream academic activities of learning, teaching, research and Ph.D. supervision, Professor Frew has had a longstanding industry involvement through advisory and consultancy work with over 100 completed consultancy projects in the past ten years. From 1988-1991 he undertook a three year industry secondment as manager of a division of Innsite Hotel Services Ltd, a leading hotel software and systems house and currently holds a number of non-executive directorships in hotel and tourism systems companies.

Current research interests include electronic distribution, online learning and computer-mediated sustainability.

 

 

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