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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2007

Proceedings of the International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007

  • State-of-the-art research on information and communication technologies applications in travel and tourism
  • International studies
  • Contributions from an internationally recognised body of researchers

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Table of contents (50 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Recommender/Support Systems

    1. RESA - An Automated Speech Based Hotel Room Booking Call Centre Agent

      • Klemens Waldhör, Claudia Freidl, Fritz Fessler, Gert Starha
      Pages 1-10
    2. Connecting Destinations with an Ontology-Based e-Tourism Planner

      • Roopa Jakkilinki, Mladen Georgievski, Nalin Sharda
      Pages 21-32
    3. Developing a Conversational Travel Advisor with ADVISOR SUITE

      • Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker, Markus Jessenitschnig, Oskar Seidler
      Pages 43-52
    4. Web-based Recommenders for Personalized City Tours: A Usage Analysis

      • Ronny Kramer, Marko Modsching, Klaus ten Hagen, Ulrike Gretzel
      Pages 53-64
  3. Consumer Behaviour

    1. Consumer Behaviour in e-Tourism

      • Annette Steinbauer, Hannes Werthner
      Pages 65-76
    2. Quo Vadis Homo Turisticus? Towards a Picture-based Tourist Profiler

      • Helmut Berger, Michaela Denk, Michael Dittenbach, Dieter Merkl, Andreas Pesenhofer
      Pages 87-96
  4. Mobile Tools and Applications

    1. Behavioural Impacts of Mobile Tour Guides

      • Ronny Kramer, Marko Modsching, Klaus ten Hagen, Ulrike Gretzel
      Pages 109-118
    2. Mobile Positioning Data in Tourism Studies and Monitoring: Case Study in Tartu, Estonia

      • Rein Ahas, Anto Aasa, Siiri Silm, Margus Tiru
      Pages 119-128
    3. CAIPS: A Context-Aware Information Push Service in Tourism

      • Thomas Beer, Matthias Fuchs, Wolfram Höpken, Jörg Rasinger, Hannes Werthner
      Pages 129-140
    4. Exploring Tourist Satisfaction with Mobile Technology

      • JungKook Lee, Juline E. Mills
      Pages 141-152
  5. Virtual Communities

    1. Combination of Information Sources in Travel Planning A Cross-national Study

      • Ingvar Tjostheim, Iis P. Tussyadiah, Sigrid Oterholm Hoem
      Pages 153-162
    2. Virtual Travel Communities: Self-Reported Experiences and Satisfaction

      • Svetlana Stepchenkova, Juline E. Mills, Hua Jiang
      Pages 163-174
    3. Virtual Tourism Content Network TANDEM - A Prototype for the Austrian Tourism Industry

      • Roman Egger, Jakob Hörl, Brigitte Jellinek, Mario Jooss
      Pages 175-184
  6. eBusiness Models

    1. Assessing eBusiness Models of U.S. Destination Marketing Organizations

      • Tanvi Kothari, Daniel R Fesenmaier
      Pages 185-194
    2. Architectural Scenarios Supporting e-Business Models for a DMS

      • Claudio Petti, Gianluca Solazzo
      Pages 195-206

About this book

The 14th ENTER Conference had the theme "Connecting Destinations: New Technologies, New Thinking, New Solutions." This focus reflects efforts to gather cutting-edge academic research and industry applications to address the challenges of ICT advances fostering a globally networked and connected village. The diverse studies including theoretical, empirical, experimental, case studies and policy, all address a myriad of topics, themes, disciplines and approaches, thereby ensuring that any reader will find several studies of interest to them. This year’s proceedings are comprised of 50 research papers that have been double – blind peer reviewed by at three reviewers and represent the global corpus of state-of-the art ICT Travel and Tourism research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Business, University of the Aegean, Chios, Greece

    Marianna Sigala

  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Studi Aziendali, Universitá degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

    Luisa Mich

  • School of Business, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Jamie Murphy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2007

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007

  • Editors: Marianna Sigala, Luisa Mich, Jamie Murphy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-69566-1

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 556

  • Number of Illustrations: 147 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: IT in Business, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)