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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013

Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, January 22-25, 2013

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  • © 2013

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  1. Lorenzo Cantoni

    1. , Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

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  2. Zheng (Phil) Xiang

    1. , College of Merchandising,, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

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  • New technologies in tourism

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  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (48 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Conceptualizing Context in an Intelligent Mobile Environment in Travel and Tourism

    • Carlos Lamsfus, Zheng Xiang, Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, David Martín
    Pages 1-11

  3. Discovering Functional Requirements and Usability Problems for a Mobile Tourism Guide through Context-Based Log Analysis

    • Elena Not, Adriano Venturini
    Pages 12-23

  4. Engineering Augmented Tourism Experiences

    • Zornitza Yovcheva, Dimitrios Buhalis, Christos Gatzidis
    Pages 24-35

  5. Exploring the Role of In-Trip Applications for Sustainable Tourism: Expert Perspectives

    • Mareba M. Scott, Andrew J. Frew
    Pages 36-46

  6. The Adoption of Smartphone Applications by Airlines

    • Yuzhu Liu, Rob Law
    Pages 47-57

  7. Transforming the Travel Experience: The Use of Smartphones for Travel

    • Dan Wang, Daniel R. Fesenmaier
    Pages 58-69

  8. Time-of-Arrival Estimation in Mobile Tour Guides

    • Arthur Pitman, Josef Bernhart, Christian Posch, Martin Zambaldi, Markus Zanker
    Pages 70-81

  9. When Cell Phones Become Travel Buddies: Social Attribution to Mobile Phones in Travel

    • Iis Tussyadiah
    Pages 82-93

  10. Building Destination Image through Online Opinionated Discourses. The Case of Swiss Mountain Destinations

    • Silvia De Ascaniis, Nicole Bischof, Lorenzo Cantoni
    Pages 94-106

  11. Drivers and Benefits of Analysing DMOs’ eWOM Activities

    • Elena Marchiori, Pauline Milwood, Florian Zach
    Pages 107-118

  12. E-destinations: Global Best Practice in Tourism Technologies and Applications

    • Dimitrios Buhalis, Ramona Wagner
    Pages 119-130

  13. Integer Programming Formulation of Finding Cheapest Ticket Combination over Multiple Tourist Attractions

    • Moonyoung Kang
    Pages 131-143

  14. Grassroots Branding with Twitter: Amazing Florida

    • Svetlana Stepchenkova, Andrei Kirilenko, Hany Kim
    Pages 144-156

  15. Multi-Dimensional Data Modelling for a Tourism Destination Data Warehouse

    • Wolfram Höpken, Matthias Fuchs, Gerhard Höll, Dimitri Keil, Maria Lexhagen
    Pages 157-169

  16. What did they say about us? Message Cues and Destination Reputation in Social Media

    • Elena Marchiori, Lorenzo Cantoni, Daniel R. Fesenmaier
    Pages 170-182

  17. Tourism Destinations as Digital Business Ecosystems

    • Rodolfo Baggio, Giacomo Del Chiappa
    Pages 183-194

  18. Attracting User Social Media Engagement: A Study of Three Budget Airlines Facebook Pages

    • Rosanna Leung, Markus Schuckert, Emmy Yeung
    Pages 195-206

  19. Backpacking, Social Media, and Crises: A Discussion of Online Social Convergence

    • Cody Morris Paris, Simon Rubin
    Pages 207-217

  20. Destination Expertise in Online Travel Communities

    • Martin Hochmeister, Ulrike Gretzel, Hannes Werthner
    Pages 218-229
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About this book

​The papers presented in this volume advance the state of the art in social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, web site and search engine optimization, technology adoption and diffusion, online communities, tourism management and decision support, eLearning, mobile technologies and applications in tourism, recommender systems, e-intermediaries and networks in tourism, customer research in e-tourism and user generated content. The volume collects research papers of prominent scholars from around the world with a disciplinary background in the fields of social or computer sciences. The book covers the most significant topics within the study field of electronic tourism and addresses both, academics and practitioners interested in the latest advances in the electronic travel and tourism domain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

    Lorenzo Cantoni

  • , College of Merchandising,, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

    Zheng (Phil) Xiang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria, January 22-25, 2013

  • Editors: Lorenzo Cantoni, Zheng (Phil) Xiang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36309-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36308-5Published: 14 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36309-2Published: 18 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 565

  • Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: IT in Business, Cities, Countries, Regions, Regional/Spatial Science

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