Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2009: by Wolfram Höpken, Ulrike Gretzel, Rob Law

By Wolfram Höpken, Ulrike Gretzel, Rob Law

The dynamic nature of tourism markets has turn into ever extra stated and leading edge enterprise types like on-line groups proceed to emerge. input 2009 will pay recognition to this example and the topic eTourism: dynamic demanding situations for commute and tourism expresses the target to give a suite of state of the art educational and commercial examine in addition to useful functions facing new demanding situations and new methods of doing company in a swiftly altering and hugely dynamic atmosphere. forty two peer-reviewed papers hide a variety of leading edge themes presently using study and improvement actions within the box of IT and trip and tourism equivalent to on-line groups, consumer generated content material, recommender structures, cellular expertise, systems and instruments, site optimisation, digital advertising, ICT and tourism locations and know-how recognition.

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This framework is a helpful tool for web analysts to understand the general context of a specific domain and the trends of the information market in that domain. Twenty-one English and Italian online communities in the tourism field have been identified, where tourists’ experiences are shared in different forms, such as videos, photos, blogs/diaries of travel experiences and reviews. g. Flickr and YouTube); in these cases, the section “Travel & tourism” has been considered. g. com) have been considered.

In figure 1 the users’ ranking variations in that period are presented. In figure 1 each circle represents an active user within the community. The study considers only the first ten active top users in each observation (the dotted line separates the first ten positions from the others in the ranking). As it can be seen, during the different observations some users changed their ranking position, other users went out of the ranking. In figure 1, new entries are represented with capital letters.

All the cohorts agreed to an extent with the statement that it is more 33 fulfilling and/or easier to share experiences with other travellers virtually than with friends and family at home. ’ The sustained connection to the backpacker culture can entice backpackers to travel more as they experience other backpacker’s experiences online. 5 Discussion This study sought to examine the virtualization of the backpacker culture. The evolution of the culture’s social structure is a result of a combination of several factors including and adaptation to the recent innovations of the internet and communications technologies, the overall mainstreaming of the backpacking, and the stability of the backpacker ideology.

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