Th e role of Norse mythology has been ignored by historians for long time. Th e evolution of tourism in manuals and guide-books bespeak the legacy of Rome and Greece as cultural matrixes of our civilization. However, we strongly believe that tourism was possible by means of the articulation of two contrasting needs, the curiosity and knowledge that shaped the Grand Tour in Medieval times. As a ...

since 1970, technology innovations transformed radically the tourism processes and strategies, essentially with the Internet apparition. Nowadays, E-Tourism systems are well implanted into the Internet, with a lot of offers and online possibilities (reservations, virtual visit, etc.). Nevertheless, with the great evolution of the Internet, users’ needs and attends changed too, they are now look...

The internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically changed how citizens and business interact with their government. Almost all the government website supply the local tourism information since the tourism is becoming increasingly important for local economic development. This paper is an attempt to compare the current development of the e-g...

The challenge facing developers of Tourism Information Systems (TIS) is the need to evolve more intelligent and dependable tourism support services. However, this kind of information systems has largely identical functionalities and delivers almost similar services. The systems differ mostly in the customized information contents they deliver and the scope of the tourism interest that is being ...

e-tourism has evolved as a mainstay business for tourist service providers. it plays an integral role in the dissemination of information and influencing consumer’s preferences and satisfaction. the purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions of service quality perceptions of consumers in e-tourism in the indian context. it also aims to understand the relative impact of these service qu...

Th e purpose of this study focus es on the extent to which electronic word-ofmouth (eWOM) and the image of Macanese gastronomy tourism infl uences tourists' intentions, based on samples of those who use the Internet, to search for information about Macanese gastronomy. Th is study was conducted from April to June 2013. A quantitative research method was adopted and online questionnaires were di...

Th is research note describes an interconnection between touristic potential of localities impacted by the First and the Second World War, by focusing on a case study of cemeteries in the North-East of Slovakia. Th e case study proposes to create a Slovak part of the ‘dark tourism thematic trail’ through cemeteries from the First World War that could join the existing Polish part of the trail a...

Although nearly all tourism information is also geographically related information, only a few tourism organisations present their offers in a geographical context. The aim of this survey is to examine what relevance geo-multimedia applications have in Austrian tourism organisations. The methodology used is an online survey, which has been e-mailed to tourism organisations throughout Austria. T...

The tourism product has an intangible nature in that customers cannot physically evaluate the services on offer until practically experienced. This makes having access to credible and authentic information about tourism products before the actual experience very valuable. An Ontology being a formal, explicit specification of concepts of a domain provides a viable platform for the development of...

The article includes the analysis of the course whose aim is to present the potentialities of the system of virtual education Moodle[1], which is the basis for constructing e-Student platform owned by State Higher Vocational School in Krosno. The article presents the use of e-learning in the course ‘Computer science in tourism’ conducted at the Department of Tourism and Recreation in State High...