The article examines the offers of marketing digital tools developed as a part startup projects for participants in tourism and travel industry, taking into account current tendencies trends development tourism, hospitality leisure industries. Startups offer both pioneering ideas, business models technologies that can fundamentally change influence well scalable proven ideas affect future have ...

EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF REVENUE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: UNDERSTAND YOUR COMPETITION AND CUSTOMERS Jun Li Gerard Cachon This dissertation empirically examines factors that challenge revenue management practices in travel industry — air-travel and lodging. In particular, it focuses on strategic interactions among firms and strategic interactions between firms and customers. While most traditional reve...

This article provides guidelines for the establishment of a comprehensive state/provincial destination marketing information system (DMIS). More specifically, it describes the process by which the tourism industry in Alberta, Canada developed a framework for the acquisition of timely research and intelligence to maintain and enhance its competitiveness as a travel destination. In keeping with a...

In this paper we describe the evolution of the cruise tourism industry and we analyze different impacts on tourism destinations of this segment of the travel industry. The study includes the discussion of economic, social, environmental, cultural and political effects. We present data to analyze and compare the performance of the main cruise destinations and cruise lines. Analysis and data are ...

Multilingual communication over the Internet has the potential to facilitate e-business, especially among small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the travel and tourism industry, which is at the forefront of cross-cultural interaction. A pragmatic methodology is introduced to enable innkeepers and travelers to correspond in their own preferred language. Using a prototype system called “Tige...

3D virtual tour is a product of the combination of tourism and information technology development, and building a three-dimensional virtual tour platform will facilitate the future development of the tourism industry. Virtual reality technology has brought about tremendous changes in the tourism industry. Modeling Language VRML, which uses Virtual Reality, turns the rich imagination of people i...

the internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. according to world tourism organization, about 95% of web users use the internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism web sites when planning for vacations. the number of people turning to the internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more t...

The information-intensive nature of the tourism and travel industry suggests an important role for Web technology in the promotion and marketing of tourist destinations. With reports of travel purchases and reservations being one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet community (eMarketer, 2002), it is no surprise that the number of tourism operators on the Web has increased considerab...