Lino Trinchini
Lecturer in Tourism
Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise
Lino teaches several tourism modules to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Within the People and Places division of the School of Management, he has been leading and tutoring modules ranging from research methodology theory and practice to masters’ dissertation.
Lino had an extensive professional experience in the wireless industry, before embarking on the path towards an academic career. At international level, his professional background expertise ranged from international business development and business intelligence to market research, financial evaluations and business planning. As assistant lecturer, during his doctoral studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, Lino delivered strategic tourism management seminar sessions to undergraduate students. At UCLan, he also taught International strategic management to undergraduate and postgraduate students, mainly MBAs, alongside the supervision of dissertations and applied business projects across diverse fields of study within the business and management domain.
- PhD, Value Creation in Smart Destinations. The Case of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021
- Master of Business Administration (MBA), Nottingham Trent University, 2015
- Executive programme certificate in Destination Management Strategies, SDA Bocconi, 2010
- MSc Economics of Tourism, Bocconi University, 2010
- BSc Communication Science and Technology, 2006
- Smartness
- Tourism Management
- Destination Marketing and Management
- Sustainability
- Digital Transformation
- Innovation
- Strategy
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Doctoral researcher, PhD. Lino’s research was focused on the co-creation of value in smart destinations, with attention to the case of Manchester. Lino’s PhD study on value creation processes concerning the use of data, technology and inter-organisational knowledge across economic, technological and social actors of a smart destination ecosystem.
Strategic Management, Service Marketing (Service-Dominant logic) and Smart Tourism are the theoretical boundaries of this research, which triggered additional interest in the role of people, creativity and innovation as key components of smartness in cities/destination development. As such, Lino co-authored a conceptual paper titled ‘Creativity, innovation and smartness in destination branding‘ and published in the International Journal of Tourism Cities.
- Business Transformations Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University
- 3rd International AR and VR Conference, Manchester, 2017
- 3rd Tourism Research Network (TourNet) PhD/ECR Symposium, Sheffield, 2018
- 5th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism, Athens, 2018
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