“Coopetition” for Cultural Tourism

Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation for Cultural Tourism

Cultural heritage appreciation is a privileged area of application for innovative, natural– language centred applications. In this paper we discuss some of the opportunities and challenges with a specific view of intelligent information presentation, that takes into account the user characteristics and behaviour and the context of the interaction. We make reference to the new PEACH project, aim...

Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism

Despite a busy lifestyle – or perhaps as a result of a stressful lifestyle – more people than ever before make leisure trips, sometimes for a long time but in many cases just for short periods. Modern telecommunication technology brings attractive tourist destinations directly into the living rooms of potential travellers, also destinations that would otherwise have been difficult to find, such...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Ethnic Tourism and Cultural Representation

The representation of minority culture is central to ethnic tourism development. However, only limited attention has been paid to cultural representation in ethnic attractions. This research examines representations of multiple ethnic cultures in the Yunnan Ethnic Folk Villages, China. The perspectives from four key groups of stakeholders— governments, park managers, employees and tourists—are ...

Coopetition for Organizations

Coopetition (or co-opetition) is a relatively new concept which emphasizes simultaneous competition and cooperation between firms (See. e.g. Brandenburger & Nalebuff, 1996). In addition to firms, coopetition is also possible between other types of organizations, such as public organizations or between different units of organization. The latter one is called “intraorganizational coopetition.” T...