O'Connor / Höpken / Gretzel Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008

Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, 2008
2008
ISBN: 978-3-211-77280-5
Verlag: Springer Wien
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 591 Seiten, eBook

This collection of papers presented at the ENTER 2008 Conference represents cutting-edge research on "eTourism: The View from the Future". This year's 50 full research papers cover topics such as: user-generated content, dynamic packaging, mobile applications, context-aware systems, technology adoption, and recommender systems. All papers have undergone a double blind peer review process; therefore, the proceedings represent the state-of-the-art of IT and Tourism research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Connor, Peter

Höpken, Wolfram

Gretzel, Ulrike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Recommender Systems in Tourism.- Adaptive Recommender Systems for Travel Planning.- A Comparative Study of Continuous and Discrete Visualisation of Tourism Information.- Evaluating Recommender Systems in Tourism — A Case Study from Austria.- User Generated Content in Tourism.- Use and Impact of Online Travel Reviews.- User-Generated Content and Travel: A Case Study on Tripadvisor.Com.- RevisiTour: Enriching the Tourism Experience With User-Generated Content.- Online Communities.- Web 2.0: A study of online travel community.- Influence of an Online Travel Community on Travel Decisions.- MySpace, My Friends, My Customers.- Web Services.- Web Services as a technology to support a global tourism offer.- A Product Line Architecture for Evolving Intelligent Component Services in Tourism Information Systems.- Mash-up Applications for Small Destination Management Organizations Websites.- Web 2.0 and Tourism.- Websites and Virtual Realities: a Useful Marketing Tool Combination? An Exploratory Investigation.- An Exploratory Field Study of Web 2.0 in Tourism.- A Web 2.0 Tourism Information System for Accessible Tourism.- Dynamic Packaging.- Some Critical Remarks on Dynamic Packaging from the Perspective of SMEs and Small Tourism Destinations.- Dynamic Packaging using a Cluster-based Demographic Filtering Approach.- Tourist Activated Networks: Implications for Dynamic Packaging Systems in Tourism.- Destination Management Systems.- Information Elements on DMO-Websites: Alternative Approaches for Measuring Perceived Utility.- Implementation of a Destination Management System Interface in Tourist Information Centres and its Impact.- Evolving Destination Systems: VisitScotland.com.- Hotel Electronic Distribution I.- Consumers’ Preferred Criteria for Hotel Online Booking.- Analyzing a Hotel Website’s Access Paths.- A Study of Information Richness and Downloading Time for Hotel Websites in Hong Kong.- Hotel Electronic Distribution II.- Adoption of E-mail Marketing in the Hotel Sector.- Selling Accommodation Packages in Online Auctions — The Case of eBay.- Evolving Internet Use by Malaysian Hotels.- Mobile Technology and Tourism.- Evaluation of a Web-based and Mobile Ski Touring Application for GPS-enabled Smartphones.- Mobile Devices as Substitute or Supplement to Traditional Information Sources: City Tourists, Mobile Guides and GPS navigation.- Passages to Medieval Archipelago: From Mobile Information Technology to Mobile Archaeological Information.- Travel Technology.- Technological Innovations in the Passenger Process of the Airline Industry: A Hypotheses Generating Explorative Study.- New Distribution Channels and Business Strategies for Location-based Travel Agencies.- New Zealand Travel Agents in the Internet Era: Spatial Differences in ICT Impact, Adoption and Perception.- Tourism Destinations.- The Impact of WiMAX on Tourist Destinations.- Designing Interactions in Tourism Mediascape — Identification of Patterns for Mobile 2.0 Platform.- A Case Study on Automating Information Aggregation Processes in Information Centres.- Techonlogy Acceptance.- Enhancing Cultural Tourism e-Services through Heritage Interpretation.- Open Space — a Collaborative Process for Facilitating Tourism IT Partnerships.- Determinants of Restaurant Employees’ Technology Use Intention: Validating Technology Acceptance Model with External Factors via Structural Equation Model.- Knowing the Customer.- etBlogAnalysis —Mining Virtual Communities using Statistical and Linguistic Methods for Quality Control in Tourism.- Developing and Implementing an eCRM 2.0 Strategy: Usage and Readiness of Greek Tourism Firms.- Mobile Positioning Based Tourism Monitoring System: Positium Barometer.- Search and Travel.- Identifying the Online Tourism Domain: Implications for Search Engine Development for Tourism.- Personalisation and Situation Awareness of the Search Process in Tourism.- Investigating the Effects of Product Type on Online Decision-Making Styles.- Managing Tourism Technology.- The Virtual Dimension in Tourism: Criteria Catalogue for the Assessment of eTourism Applications.- Context-based Adaptation of Ubiquitous Web Applications in Tourism.- Acquisition and Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism.- Tourism Networks.- Employing’ social Network Analysis’ to Influence Tourism Events Decision-Making: A Pilot Study.- Capability Maturity Models for SMEs and Collaborative Networked Organisations in Tourism.- e-Destination Structure: a Network Analysis Approach.