Tourism is viewed as information intensive industry where information plays an important role for decision and action making. Austria, along with its long history on music, culture, and nature, unsurprisingly attracts lots of tourist and Austrian tourism industry contributes significantly to the local economy. Semantic technologies open up new ways of facilitating effective integration of (tour...

The ESTIA project aims to provide the means for mass adoption of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce in the tourism sector. Its main objective is to exploit emerging infrastructures and access devices, and develop advanced applications in order to provide innovative services to all parties involved in the Tourism sector with emphasis on tourists and SME providers. ESTIA introduces a new innov...

Rural Markets are defined as those segments of overall market of any economy, which are distinct from the other types of markets like stock market, commodity markets or Labor economics. Rural Markets constitute an important segment of overall economy. In recent years, rural markets have acquired significance in countries like China and India, as the overall growth of the economy has resulted in...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between tourism development and economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in a multivariate model, using panel data for the period 1995–2012. The study adopts a panel Granger causality analysis approach to assess the contribution of tourism to economic growth in GCC countries as a whole, and in each ind...

He co-authored a text on Distance Education. His current research interests include entrepreneurship, the experience economy, nature tourism, and human resource management issues in the service industries.

As in many other developing countries, tourism is one of the key drivers of Kenya’s socioeconomic development. At independence in 1963, Kenya depended mainly on its exports of agricultural products such as coffee and tea for foreign exchange. However, with the decline in world market prices of these primary products, the country has turned to tourism as an alternative. In spite of the growing i...

Tourism is a sector of the economy in which the problems related to the jobs and necessary skills to exit the crisis are emphasized more sensitively than in the other sectors of the economy. This paper proposes a literature review based on the latest studies and research literature worldwide (USA, Canada, EU, etc.), aims to identify the factors and trends influencing skills shortages in tourism...

Purpose – The tourism industry service network (TISN) is considered to be one of the largest components of tourism in the modern Vietnamese economy. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is currently developing a long-term plan to diversify the country’s tourism industry and to improve the destination image of Vietnam. To successfully implement this plan, the Vietnamese tourism ...