Research Track Presentations

Wednesday 25th January 2012

Perceptions and Strategies of Hospitality and Tourism Practitioners on Social Media: An Exploratory Study Julian Ayeh, Daniel Leung, Norman Au, Rob Law

Social Media Use and Impact during the Holiday Travel Planning Process John Fotis, Dimitrios Buhalis, Nicos Rossides

An Assessment of Contagion on Social Networking Sites Iis Tussyadiah

ConTur: An Intelligent Content Management System for the Tourism Sector German Herrero Cárcel, Aida Campo, Maria Gil, Ana Garcia, David Martin, Ion Zugasti, Sonia Bilbao, Amalia Perez, Hristo Koshutanski, Antonio Maña, Iñaki Perez De Albeniz

Measuring Emotional States in Touristic Events: The Case of the Emocionómetro Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Ion Gil Fuentetaja, Maria Peralta Ariza

Analysing the Emotional Appeal of a Website through Verbal and Pictorial Stimuli Anke Schneider, Barbara Stangl

eTourism: Multimedia Brochures and Communication Chains Nicoletta Di Blas, Paolo Paolini 

An Analysis of the Perceived Value of Touristic Location Based Services Barbara Neuhofer

A Methodology for Building Microformats Wilhelm Loibl, Dora Tüz

TripAdvisor.com vs. NYCGO.com: Evaluation of Functional Components of Generalist and Specialist Tourism Websites Young Shin Lim, Eunice Eunjung Yoo

Hotel Information Exposure in Cyberspace: The Case of Hong Kong Rosanna Leung, Rob Law

Drivers of E-Commerce Adoption in Egyptian Travel Agents Mohamed Abou-Shouk, Wai Mun Lim

A Follow Up of Internet Adopters’ Use, Perceptions and Channel Preferences of Electronic Travel Services Niklas Eriksson

Modeling and Comparing Malaysian Hospitality Website Diffusion Noor Hazarina Hashim, Miriam Scaglione, Jamie Murphy

 Interacting with a Social Web of Smart Objects for Enhancing Tourist Experiences Federica Cena & the PIEMONTE Team

Flashpacking: A Discussion of Independent Travel in a Digital World Cody Morris Paris

 A ‘Green Economy Tourism System’ (GETS): Architecture and Usage Alexandra Law, Michael McGrath, Terry DeLacy

eTcoMM – eTourism Communication Maturity Model. A Framework to Evaluate the Maturity of a DMO when it comes to the Online Communication Management. The Case of Canton Ticino and Lombardy Elena Marchiori, Giulia Pavese, Lorenzo Cantoni 

Tourism Training: An Investigation of Virtual Learning Experience in the Context of a Virtual World Yu-Chih Huang, Sheila Backman, Lan-Lan Chang

 

Thursday 26th January 2012

 Potential-of-Interest Maps for Mobile Tourist Information Services Yohei Kurata

Territoriality and Consumption Behaviour with Location-Based Media Iis Tussyadiah

Evaluation of Mobile Augmented Reality for Tourism Destinations Maria Teresa Linaza, David Marimón, Paula Carrasco, Roberto Álvarez, Javier Montesa, Salvador Ramon Aguilar, Gorka Diez

Digitalizing Loyalty Cards in Tourism Wolfram Höpken, Philipp Deubele, Gerhard Höll, Jörn Kuppe, Dominik Schorpp, Roger Olides ZapataLicones, Matthias Fuchs

Evaluation of Intelligent Routes for Personalised Electronic Tourist Guides Ander Garcia, Maria Teresa Linaza, Olatz Arbelaitz

Mobile Tourism Services and Technology Acceptance in a Mature Domestic Tourism Market: The Case of Switzerland Adrian Bader, Markus Baldauf, Sandra Leinert, Matthes Fleck, Andreas Liebrich

Recommending Hotels based on Multi-Dimensional Customer Ratings Dietmar Jannach, Fatih Gedikli, Zeynep Karakaya, Oliver Juwig

Information Extraction for a Tourist Recommender System Ago Luberg, Priit Järv, Tanel Tammet 

Towards a Typology of Retail Cybermediation in Tourism Markets Benjamin Rensmann Network Analysis of the Austrian eTourism WebRoland Piazzi, Rodolfo Baggio, Julia Neidhardt, Hannes Werthner 

Electronic Marketing for China Outbound Tourism: Implications from Chinese Online Travelers Edmond Wu, Rob Law, Chaozhi Zhang

New Tools for Studying Visitor Behaviors in Museum: A Case Study at the Louvre Yuji Yoshimura, Fabien Girardin, Juan Pablo Carrascal, Carlo Ratti, Josep Blat

A New Hotel Online Reputation Framework for Ontology Learning Development Sofia Reino, Aihnoa Serna, Carlos Lamsfus, Aurkene Azua-Sorzabal

Network Analysis of the Austrian eTourism Web Roland Piazzi, Rodolfo Baggio, Julia Neidhardt, Hannes Werthner

 

Thursday 26th January 2012 - BEST RESEARCH PAPERS

 

A Typology of Travellers based on their Propensity to Go Online Before, During and After the Trip Anne-Mette Hjalager, Jan Møller Jensen

A Study of Hospitality and Travel-Related Deals on Hong Kong Group-buying Websites Ada Lo, Joey Wu, Rob Law

The New Landscape of Travel: A Comprehensive Analysis of Smartphone Apps Dan Wang, Zheng Xiang

 

 

Friday 27th January 2012

When and Where Tourists are Viewing Exhibitions: Toward Sophistication of GPS-Assisted Tourist Activity Surveys Junya Kawase, Yohei Kurata, Naoto Yabe

Identification of Innovative Users for New Service Development in Tourism Rita Faullant, Ines Krajger, Markus Zanker 

Differences in Social Presence Perceptions Myunghwa Kang, Ulrike Gretzel

Involving Tourism Domain Experts in the Development of Context- Aware Mobile Services David Martin, Diego López-De-Ipiña, Carlos Lamsfus, Aurkene Azua-Sorzabal

The Alignment Between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy and Business Strategy of Professional Conference Organizers Ce Mo, Nina Mistilis

Selling Tourism Products through the Opaque Channels Malgorzata Ogonowska 

Good Practices for Web Presences Strategies of Tourism Destinations Luisa Mich, John S. Hull

New Media in Religious Communication: Supporting WYD Madrid 2011 Alessandro Inversini, Lorenzo Cantoni, Silvia De Ascanis, Miriam Stefania

Shoot, Taste and Post: An Exploratory Study of Food and Tourism Experiences in an Online Image- Share Community Bingjie Liu, William C. Norman, Sheila J. Backman, Karen Cuneo, Margaret Condrasky

An End-user Development Architecture for Route-based Tourism in a Web 2.0 Environment Marek Maurizio, Giulio Pattanaro

Factors Influencing Travellers’ E-Ratings and E-Complaints about Hotel Services: Insights from an Italian Tourism Destination Giacomo Del Chiappa, Stefano Dall’Aglio

Classification of Customer Reviews based on Sentiment Analysis Dietmar Gräbner, Markus Zanker, Günther Fliedl, Matthias Fuchs

Monitoring and Summarization of Hotel Reviews Walter Kasper, Mihaela Vela

Destinations Similarity Based on User Generated Pictures’ Tags Alessandro Inversini, Davide Eynard, Elena Marchiori, Leonardo Gentile

What’s in a Travel Review Title? Silvia De Ascaniis, Ulrike Gretzel

An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Twitter Sentiment and Influence in the Tourism Domain Donato Barbagallo, Leonardo Bruni, Chiara Francalanci, Paolo Giacomazzi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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