networks, and with the world around them. Travel Connections prompts a rethinking of the key paradigms in tourism studies in … the digital age. Interactive travel calls into question longstanding tourism concepts such as landscape, the tourist gaze … engage with their social networks in the twenty-first century: smart tourism, the mediated gaze, mobile conviviality, re …

For more than 30 years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been revolutionizing travel, tourism, and … provides an extensive overview of the latest developments of ICTs in the tourism and hospitality industry. Featuring papers … presented at the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism’s (IFITT) 31st annual ENTER International eTourism …

Over the years tourism mediation has experienced major changes, including the arrival of the Internet and the … corroborated that the means used by tourism consumers to access information has changed following the application of ICTs, leading … to situations of tourism "de-mediation" and "remediation" and impacting considerably on the role played by travel …

-- 5. Website Evaluation and ICT Adoption -- 6. Semantic Technology & Recommender Systems -- 7. User Tracking and Modelling …The papers presented in this volume advance the state of the art in social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism … marketing, web site and search engine optimization, technology adoption and diffusion, online communities, tourism management …