A Classification of Mobile Tourism Applications

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Author(s): Stan Karanasios (AIMTech Research Group, University of Leeds, UK), Stephen Burgess (Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, Australia)and Carmine Sellitto (Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, Australia)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 13
Source title: Global Hospitality and Tourism Management Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain), Robert D. Tennyson (University of Minnesota, USA)and Jingyuan Zhao (University of Québec at Montréal, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-041-5.ch011

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management / Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management

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This chapter introduces mobile technology and discusses its emergence in the tourism industry. As has been the case with other Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), tourism has manifested as one of the most well suited sectors to mobile technology and mobile applications. In contrast to other ICTs in the tourism domain however, mobile applications are capable of enhancing the tourist experience at the destination, creating a paradigm shift in how information is accessed and digested, and transactions performed. Nonetheless, little is known concerning how mobile technologies are changing the landscape of tourism and tourist behaviour and the content offered by tourism applications. In order to address the scarcity of research in this emergent area this paper focuses on mobile applications in the tourism industry and based on a literature survey proposes a framework for evaluating mobile tourism applications.

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