Information Technology and Tourism

In this summary you will learn

• How information technology and the tourism industry are made for each other
• How to use IT to create profitable, effective tourist trade systems

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Why you should read Information Technology and Tourism

Information technology (IT) fits the tourism industry like those three-fingered white gloves fit Mickey Mouse - but you have to really understand what you are doing if you want to hang out with the big thinkers. Just ask authors and researchers Hannes Werthner and Stefan Klein, specialists on IT applications for the tourism trade. They teach a complex class, here, about getting destination and attraction information to travelers and about getting tourism data back to service providers. This IT theme park is a place where insiders give the professional scoop to other insiders. The language is highly technical, theoretical and complex (perhaps, now and then, even more complex than the ideas at hand warrant). Casual visitors will like the extensive source documentation, charts, graphs and arrow-filled diagrams, but the text is written for folks who live in this industry day in and day out. If you already know info technology and tourism, getAbstract.com invites you to enjoy this expert rundown on how all the internal mysteries relate. There’s nothing Mickey Mouse about it.

About the Authors

Hannes Werthner is a researcher at the Institute for Statistics, Operations Research and Computer Methods at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Stefan Klein is a researcher at the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Munster, Germany.