ENTER2013
eTourism Opportunities and Challenges for the next 20 years
Innsbruck Austria 22nd to 25th of January 2013.

ENTER2013 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.ifitt.org/public/uploads/enter2013

CONFERENCE

Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER 2013 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. While celebrating its 20th anniversary, ENTER 2013 will focus on main trends and emerging technologies which are likely to influence eTourism in the next twenty years. 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 Development
 Recommender Systems
 Location based services

LOCATION

IFITT invites regular and new participants to ENTER 2013, which will be held in Innsbruck, Austria. Right in the heart of Europe, Innsbruck is very conveniently located, and easily accessible by plane, train and car. In addition to experience the latest technological development and innovations in tourism, ENTER participants would be able to appreciate the richness of cultural heritage in the capital of Tyrol.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Research papers are invited across the widest spectrum of Information and Communication Technologies in Travel and Tourism. All submissions will be 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.

A) Full Papers

Full papers should be innovative, so to advance the knowledge base of related fields. These papers present major contributions to the field and should be up to 12 pages in length. The conference proceedings (to be published by Springer, Wien - New York) will include all accepted full papers. An award for the best full paper will be presented during the conference.

B) Research Notes

Research notes of up to 5 pages are invited. These papers represent new ideas not developed enough at the scale of a full paper, findings that restate known research, descriptions of prototypes, or research that is limited in scope. All research notes will be published by the e-journal eRTR (e-Review of Tourism Research) at http://ertr.tamu.edu/ (Editor of eRTR: Ulrike Gretzel, University of Wollongong)

C) Organized Sessions

Proposals for organizing technical or other research-oriented sessions are invited. Proposals will include details of potential participants, topics, and presenters. Session Chairs are expected to attend ENTER 2013, set the order of presentations, and chair their session/s. Deadline for session chairs to submit their proposals to Research Track Chair is August 31, 2012.

Submission

Please refer to the ‘Author Advice’ document as a style guide for standards to follow in the preparation of manuscripts. Papers must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform (details will be available soon). All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by experienced researchers who are members of the scientific review committee. Final acceptance will depend on whether the author(s) can adequately address review comments to the satisfaction of the reviewers. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by the deadline and must register for the conference by November 16, 2012 in order to have their papers included in the Conference Proceedings / eRTR.

PhD Workshop

ENTER 2013 will also continue its PhD Workshop one day prior to the main Conference. Further details will be available on the conference Website soon. PhD Workshop Chairs:

Rob Law (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) hmroblaw@polyu.edu.hk
Matthias Fuch (ETOUR Mid-Sweden University) Matthias.Fuchs@miun.se
Carlos Lamsfus (CICtourGUNE) CarlosLamsfus@tourgune.org
Barbara Neuhofer bneuhofer@bournemouth.ac.uk

TIME SCHEDULE (dates still to be defined: hereafter an hypothesis)

Submission closes: September 1, 2012
Final acceptance: Octoberber 31, 2012
Registration Deadline: November 16, 2012
Conference: January 22-25, 2013

ENTER 2013 RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS

Research Track Chair: Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Lugano), Switzerland (lorenzo.cantoni@usi.ch)
Co-chair: Zheng Xiang, University of North Texas, USA

ENTER 2013 RESEARCH PROGRAMME REVIEW COMMITTEE

ARSAL Irem, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
AU Norman, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
AUBKE Florian, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
BAGGIO Rodolfo, Bocconi University, Italy
BELDONA Srikanth, University of Delaware, USA
BOLCHINI Davide, Indiana University – Purdue University, USA
BUHALIS Dimitrios, Bournemouth University,UK
CANTONI Lorenzo, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
CHRISTOU Evangelos, University of the Aegean, Greece
DANIELE Roberto, Oxford Brookes University, UK
DEL CHIAPPA Giacomo, University of Sassari, Italy
DI BLAS Nicoletta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
DICKINGER Astrid, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
DIOKO Leonardo, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau, China
DUSTDAR Schahram, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
EGGER Roman, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
FESENMAIER Daniel, Temple University, USA
FRANCALANCI Chiara, Politecnico di Milano ,Italy
FREW Andrew, Queen Margaret University
FROESCHL Karl, University of Vienna, Austria
FUCHS Matthias, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
GERRIKAGOITIA Jon Kepa, CICtourGUNE, Spain
GOECKE Robert, Munich University of Applied Sciences,Germany
GOVERS Robert, University of Leuven, Belgium
GRETZEL Ulrike, University of Wollongon, Australia
HAM Sunny, University of Kentucky
HITZ Martin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
HÖPKEN Wolfram, Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany
HU Clark, Temple University, USA
INVERSINI Alessandro, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
JUNG Timothy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
KAWAMURA Hidenori, Hokkaido University, Japan
KLEIN Stefan, University of Münster,Germany
KURATA Yohei, Tokio Metropolitan University, Japan
LAMSFUS Carlos, CICtourGUNE, Spain
LAW Rob, The Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hong Kong
LEE Andy, The Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hong Kong
LEE Miranda, University of New Haven, USA
LEUNG Daniel, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
LEUNG Rosanna, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
LEXHAGEN Maria, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
LI Gang, Deakin University, Australia
LUBBE Berendien, University of Pretoria, south Africa
LUDWIG Bernd, Erlangen University, German
MARIA TERESA Linaza, Vicomtech, Spain
MCGRATH Michael, Victoria University, Australia
MICH Luisa, University of Trento, Canada
MILLS Juline, Purdue Univerisity, USA
MINGHETTI Valeria, CISET-Ca' Foscari University, Italy
MISTILIS Nina, University of New South Wales
MITSCHE Nicole, University of Sunderland, UK
MOROSAN Cristian, University of St. Thomas, USA
MURPHY Jamie, University of Western Australia, Australia
NOT Elena, FBK Italy, Italy
O'CONNOR Peter, ESSEC Business School, Singapore
PAOLINI Paolo, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
PECHLANER Harald, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
PETERS Mike, MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
PIJL Gert Van Der, Erasmus University, Rotterdom
PROELL Birgit, Linz University, Austria
QI Shanshan, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau, China
RICCI Francesco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
SCAGLIONE Miriam, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
SCHEGG Roland, University of Applied Sciences Valais, Switzerland
SIGALA Marianna, University of the Aegean, Greece
STEINER Thomas, Swiss School of Tourism
TEPPAN Erich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
VOLO Serena, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
WEI Xunkai, Air Force Engineering University, China
WERTHNER Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
WÖBER Karl, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
XIANG Zheng, University of North Texas, USA
YAMAMOTO Masahito, Hokkaido University, Japan
ZACH Florian, Temple University, USA
ZANKER Markus, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
ZHANG Chaozhi, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
ZHANG Zili, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
ZHANG Ziqiong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
ZHAO Xinyuan, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
ZINS Andreas, MODUL University Vienna, Austria

The proceedings of recently held ENTER conferences are listed by ISI's Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S). ENTER2013 proceedings will follow a similar indexing process for ISI and other major indices.