In this article, we meet a seven-year-old boy, Matti, who was adopted from his birth country in Africa by family Sweden. We him together with as they are planning adoption return trip to and again after their return. argue that an is form of travel and/or visiting friends relatives (VFR) travel. By methodologically using so-called children’s perspective primarily focusing on Matti how he talks ...

The case, through the experience of a recent college graduate thrusted in the decision-making spotlight, describes the attempt by the largest student travel agency in the world – STA Travel – to evaluate whether and how to establish a presence in Second Life. Second Life was a fast emerging Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) that was garnering increasing attention from compan...

Web engineering research community has proposed several web design methods that have proven successful for the specification of the functional and navigational requirements posed by Web information systems. However, the architectural features are often ignored in the design process. This situation causes Web applications with rigid and predefined architectures depending on the Web design method...

This paper provides certain degree of analysis on the benefits that leverage from the use of new technologies in the Travel Industry. Besides the concerns about what technology can do for travelers, we also address the pressures for changes, the potential impacts on different category of travel agencies and also the implications on leisure and corporate market segments. The paper also explains ...

In this paper, we propose an Internet payment system which uses a payment gateway to handle the credit card payment transaction between customers, merchants and banks. To test and evaluate the payment system, we build an online travel agency called E-Travel, which simulates a real-life E-Payment application. On-line travel services including flight reservation, selling of travel accessories, to...

The Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) provides the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) with ongoing and timely medical, scientific, and public health advice relating to tropical infectious diseases and health risks associated with international travel. PHAC acknowledges that the advice and recommendations set out in this statement are based upon the best current ava...