The majority of cities in our world is not only connected through conventional physical infrastructure, but increasingly through modern digital infrastructure. This paper aims to test whether digital connectivity leads to other linkage patterns among world cities than traditional infrastructure....

This paper aims to provide a new methodological and empirical contribution to the rising literature on the relative performance and benchmarking of large cities in a competitive world. On the basis of a recent detailed database on many achievement criteria of 35 major cities in the world, it...

Nowadays, e-services technology has demonstrated a pervasive character in the modern tourism industry. e-Services implemented by the tourism industry, e.g. e-tourism, appeared to produce significant cost reductions and market efficiencies. Since online services are continuously accessible, time...