Smart destinations have emerged as a means of integrating physical and technological infrastructure to create seamless experiences for tourists improve the quality life residents. However, operationalization smart destination concept, especially roles functions Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs), remain poorly understood. This study uses interviews with experts in marketing, place manag...

Although information and communication technologies (ICT) were an important issue for Travel & Tourism (T&T) since the 1960s (i.e. computer reservations systems, global distribution systems; Werthner & Klein, 1999), the difference today is that ICT has become a strategic issue for every business (Buhalis, 2006). The special benefit tourism gains from ICT can be put down to the characteristics o...

Nanomedicine in a broad sense is the application of nano-scale technologies to the practice of medicine. The creation of nanodevices such as nanobots capable of performing therapeutic functions in vivo is a destination within the emerging field of nanomedicine. On the journey to that destination, significant technological advances across multiple scientific disciplines continue to be proposed, ...

The paper presents an approach to estimate OriginDestination (OD) flows and their path splits, based on traffic counts on links in the network. The approach called Compressive Origin-Destination Estimation (CODE) is inspired by Compressive Sensing (CS) techniques. Even though the estimation problem is underdetermined, CODE recovers the unknown variables exactly when the number of alternative pa...

In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), the aim forwarding/routing protocols is to achieve a high delivery ratio of packets/bundles at the lowest possible bandwidth space and energy. Therefore, finding a protocol which uses resource to achieve high delivery ratio and low latency is an open research question. This paper proposes a quota protocol which confines the number of replicas and forwards them...

The construct of destination image and its formation are well researched. Numerous studies are conducted to investigate how destination images impact tourists‟ attitudes, behaviour and destination choice and what factors influence their destination image formation. However, much of this research focuses on post-visit images, and little is still known about the actual process of destination imag...

Internet is commonly accepted as an important aspect in successful tourism promotion as well as destination marketing in this era. The main aim of this study is to explore how online promotion and its influence on destination awareness and loyalty in the tourism industry. This study proposes a structural model of the relationships among online promotion (OP), destination awareness (DA), tourist...