Smart Maritime Tourism (SMT) is a new research area that aims to integrate virtual reality technology to promote sustainable practices for maritime nations and landlocked countries.
Yapa Mahinda Bandara
Yapa Mahinda Bandara is a transport economist and an academic at The Business School of Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, with a specialization in economics and obtained his PhD from the National Center for Ports and Shipping at the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania. His research interests include transport pricing, econometric application in maritime, port, and transport economics, SDGs and transport, and logistics industry. He teaches microeconomics, macroeconomics, international trade, transport policy and economics, transport infrastructure investment and appraisal, and management research methodology and research ethics. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Sri Lanka since 2008 and served as the Vice President Education in 2021.