The prosperity of the Chinese financial market and the development of financial information technology have given rise to a new occupation, “online financial marketing”. However, in our higher education, no special course system for “online financial marketing” has been set up, and our vocational education also lacks a set of scientific vocational qualification standard for “online financial ma...

Emerging information technologies play an increasingly important role, not only to automate tasks within organizations but also to provide the infrastructure to facilitate communication across organizational boundaries, to implement one-to-one marketing strategies, or to manage business relationships. Web Information Systems (WIS) provide a platform that can help establish and manage customer r...

Since its inception as a theme park in 1992, and aiming to adjust to a seasonal adjusted demand, Port Aventura had invested heavily in new shows, rides, hotels, golf courses, a convention centre, and a shopping mall. Yet, such evolution from a theme park to a resort had posed new challenges for the executive team of Port Aventura. In particular, whereas as a resort the commercial activity had f...

introduction: information management system is a formal approach to collect the necessary information in its due time for managers to facilitate decision-making, planning and management. medical records system which is closely associated with pieces of information and their true value can play an important role in health care organizations. the main objective of this study is to compare informa...

Interpersonal influence and word-of-mouth (WOM) are ranked the most important information source when a consumer is making a purchase decision. This influence may be especially important in the hospitality and tourism industry, whose intangible products are difficult to evaluate prior to their consumption. When WOM becomes digital, the largescale, anonymous, ephemeral nature of the Internet ind...

Internet and e-Commerce have provoked major re-configurations of the tourism value chain. Especially Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) as marketing and information service providers have to face the threat of disintermediation; and they need to respond with higher level services and products. This paper presents our findings from a knowledge management project with Austrian National Tou...