Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021: Proceedings of the ENTER 2021 eTourism Conference, January 19–22, 2021

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Wolfgang Wörndl, Chulmo Koo, Jason L. Stienmetz
Springer Nature, Jan 11, 2021 - Business & Economics - 581 pages
This open access book is the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 28th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER21@yourplace virtual conference January 19–22, 2021. This book advances the current knowledge base of information and communication technologies and tourism in the areas of social media and sharing economy, technology including AI-driven technologies, research related to destination management and innovations, COVID-19 repercussions, and others. Readers will find a wealth of state-of-the-art insights, ideas, and case studies on how information and communication technologies can be applied in travel and tourism as we encounter new opportunities and challenges in an unpredictable world.
 

Contents

A Systematic Literature Review
3
Blockchain Technologys Potential for Sustainable Tourism
17
Inroom VoiceBased AI Digital Assistants Transforming OnSite Hotel Services and Guests Experiences
30
NextPOI Recommendations Matching Users Visit Behaviour
45
Assessing Online Sustainability Communication of Italian Cultural Destinations A Web Content Mining Approach
58
Technostress Among Hotel Employees a Longitudinal Study of Social Media as Digital Service Encounters
70
The Practice in China
83
Cocreating Personalised Experiences in the Context of the PersonalisationPrivacy Paradox
95
Three Research Propositions
315
Information Characteristics on Instagram and Viewer Behavior
322
A Conceptual Framework
328
Destinations
334
The Case of a Destination Management Organization
337
Current Trends and Implications
352
Measuring the Value of Social Media Marketing from a Destination Marketing Organization Perspective
365
The Case of Switzerland
378

A Platform for Difficulty Assessment and Recommendation of Hiking Trails
109
A Study on the Factors Affect the Technology Satisfaction on AI Based Selfservice Technology Service Failure in Hotel
123
The Role of Perceived Technology and Consumers Personality Traits for Trust Transfer in Airbnb
128
Innovation
134
A StrengthBased Approach
137
An Empirical Analysis of Global Hotel Brands
150
Metaanalysis
162
A Netnographic Study of Consumer Value in Slow Travel
175
Digitizing the Live Event Brand
188
The Attraction for Digital Nomad Tourists
202
Are Destination Stakeholders Prepared to Facilitate Mobile Payments?
210
Airbnb Hosts Perceptions on Airbnb Customer Social Responsibility and Organizational Justice in Airbnb 20
216
Are Customers Game?
222
Social Media and User Generated Content
228
A Text Analytics Approach
231
A Path and Cluster Analysis
244
A Pinterest Netnography
256
Cultural Traits in the Consumption of Luxury Hotel Services
269
Exploring the Impact of Heuristic Attributes of Electronic Word of Mouth on Accommodation Sharing Platforms
280
How Reliable Is Social Media Data? Validation of TripAdvisor Tourism Visitations Using Independent Data Sources
286
Do Tourists from Different Countries Interpret Travel Experience with the Same Feeling? Sentiment Analysis of TripAdvisor Reviews
294
The Impact of Crisis Characteristics and Media Coverage on the Publics Attitude Toward Tourism Organization Expressed on Sina Weibo
302
A Flexible Hotel Fake Review Detection System
308
Is Japan Leapfrogging Traditional DMOs Models? A Research Agenda
389
Unpacking the Smart Tourism Paradigm from an Internet Studies Perspective
403
Exploring the Transmission Mechanisms
413
Discovering Cultural Differences Through Information Flow of National DMOs Websites
419
A Conceptual Framework of Destination Sustainability in Sharing Economy
426
A Conceptual Model
433
COVID19
439
Swiss Hotels Online Communication Regarding Coronavirus
440
Virtual Reality as a Travel Substitution Tool During COVID19
452
Digital Service Innovation in Top Restaurants
464
The Sustainability of Using Domestic Tourism as a PostCOVID19 Recovery Strategy in a Distressed Destination
476
A Comparative Study of Wuhan and Sapporo
490
Factors Influencing Tourists Intention to Use COVID19 Contact Tracing App
504
Destination Management in Times of Crisis Potentials of Open Innovation Approach in the Context of COVID19?
517
Old and New Media Discourses on Chinese Outbound Tourism to Switzerland Before and During the Covid19 Outbreak An Exploratory Study
530
A Model to Predict Users Intentions to Adopt ContactTracing Apps for Prevention from COVID19
543
Evidence from Online Reviews
549
A Bayesian Network Model
557
Examining Post COVID19 Tourist Concerns Using Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling
564
The Use of AI Robotics in Pembrokeshire Coastal Pathway
570
Author Index
578
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Wolfgang Wörndl is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany). His current research focuses on interactive recommender systems in mobile scenarios such as travel and tourism. He has co-organized and served as a program committee member for a large number of journals, conferences, and workshops, e.g., Co-Chair of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour) series at the ACM RecSys Conference.
Chulmo Koo is Professor and Chair in the Smart Tourism Education Platform (STEP), and Managing Director of the Smart Tourism Research Center (STRC), Kyung Hee University (Seoul, Korea). His current research interests focus on smart tourism, and his work has been published in journals like Tourism Management, Journal of Tourism Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Information Technology and People, Electronic Markets, Current Issues in Tourism, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, and other prominent outlets.
Jason L. Stienmetz is Assistant Professor of Tourism Information Technology and Digitalization for the Department of Tourism and Service Management, Modul University Vienna (Austria). His research interests include measuring, modeling, and managing tourism destination systems; visitor experience and value creation; and big data. Dr. Stienmetz serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Travel Research and the Journal of Information Technology and Tourism.