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ENTER2013@Innsbruck
22 - 25 January 2013
Congress Innsbruck
Innsbruck, AustriaENTER 2013 celebrates its 20th birthday back home in Innsbruck Austria
Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) the ENTER conference offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.
At ENTER 2013, the theme is eTourism opportunities and challenges for the next 20 years exploring information and communication technologies concepts, applications, and business models in travel and tourism. Issues to be covered at the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Advanced Distribution Systems
- Electronic Marketing
- Information Search and Retrieval
- Technology Acceptance
- Consumer Inspiration through ICTS
- Eno-Gastronomic Tourism
- Information Interfaces and Presentation
- Travel Search and Meta-Search
- Crisis and e-Tourism
- ICT Adoption, Use, and Value Creation
- Intelligent Systems
- Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
- Distribution Strategies
- ICT-enabled Partnerships and Segmentation
- Legal and Social Aspects
- Website Design and Evaluation
- E-Learning
- ICT and Sustainability
- Mobile Services
- Context-Aware Systems
- E-strategy and e-Business models
- ICT for Regional Development
- Recommender Systems
The conference brings together the research community with industry and it is organised in three streams namely, industry, destinations and research tracks. The conference also features 6 world class keynote speakers. All submissions to the research track is rigorously evaluated for novelty, significance, and soundness. Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations. The conference celebrates 20 years of continuing contribution and ground breaking interactions within the IFITT community. All started in Innsbruck and we are back here to celebrate our 20th birthday.
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Contact Information
Dimitrios Buhalis
Email: dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk
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Company Details
International Federation for Information Technology and Tourism (IFITT)
www.ifitt.org
Email: ifitt@ifitt.org
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Event News
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11/30/2010Research: Trends in hotel booking-engine design | Università della Svizzera italiana
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02/03/2006ENTER 2006 | Technology And Consumer Trends: How Tourism Reacts To Rapid Innovation Strategies
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12/06/2005ENTER 2006 in Lausanne: „Olympian Innovation“
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11/09/2005Profit Opportunities from Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Hotel Sector | By Kate Varini & Hilary Murphy
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09/13/2005Target Market Segments Identified for Hotel Mobile Applications | EHL Research
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Distribution Channel Analysis: a Guide for HotelsThe American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) and STR Special Report "Distribution Channel Analysis: a Guide for Hotels", published by the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Foundation, discusses the effects of channel mix on profitability and what the industry can expect in the near term in the distribution landscape. It reviews the size and structure of the hotel industry at a high level, with respect to hotel performance and its use of distribution channels.
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