Smart tourism: foundations and developments

U Gretzel, M Sigala, Z **ang, C Koo - Electronic markets, 2015 - Springer
Smart tourism is a new buzzword applied to describe the increasing reliance of tourism
destinations, their industries and their tourists on emerging forms of ICT that allow for …

Exploring the implications of virtual reality technology in tourism marketing: An integrated research framework

YC Huang, KF Backman, SJ Backman… - … Journal of Tourism …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The proliferation of the Internet and other technological innovations has transformed the
structure of the tourism industry as well as affected how tourism destinations are perceived …

[CITATION][C] Tourist behaviour: Themes and conceptual schemes

PL Pearce - Channel View, 2005 - books.google.com
Tourism is an inherently social phenomenon. Tourists travel with others and experience
places and cultures through interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar others. This volume …

The influence of online reviews to online hotel booking intentions

X Zhao, L Wang, X Guo, R Law - International Journal of …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–This study aims to investigate the impacts of online review and source features
upon travelers' online hotel booking intentions. Design/methodology/approach–This study …

[BOOK][B] The economics of tourism destinations: Theory and practice

N Vanhove - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Revised and updated, the fourth edition of The Economics of Tourism Destinations provides
a guide to the economic aspects of tourism for students and practitioners to decipher the …

[BOOK][B] Destination marketing organisations

S Pike - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
Travellers are now spoilt by choice of available holiday destinations. In today's crowded
tourism market place, destination competitiveness demands an effective marketing …

18 Tourism information technology

PJ Sheldon - International handbook on the economics of tourism, 1997 - elgaronline.com
Knowledge, information and information technology (IT) are important economic resources
that must be added to the traditional economic resources of land, labor and capital. This is …

[BOOK][B] Information and communication technologies for sustainable tourism

A Ali, A Frew - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as
the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the …

Tourism destination competitiveness: from definition to explanation?

JA Mazanec, K Wöber, AH Zins - Journal of Travel research, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This article contributes to the recent literature on tourism destination competitiveness
including the gargantuan compilations of competitiveness factors by Ritchie and Crouch …

[PDF][PDF] Conceptualization of smart tourism destination competitiveness

C Koo, S Shin, U Gretzel, WC Hunter… - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2016 - apjis.or.kr
This paper aims to develop a conceptual model of smart tourism destination competitiveness
to provide implications in terms of smart tourism destination realization and smart tourism …