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16th International Conference on IT and Travel & Tourism, Amsterdam, 28-30 Jan 2009; Deadline now 19 Sep

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ENTER 2009 – CALL FOR PAPERS www.ifitt.org/enter
eTourism: dynamic challenges for travel and tourism

The 16th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism

IFITT’s Global Travel & Tourism Technology and eBusiness Forum
January 28th – 30th, 2009, RAI Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Welcome to ENTER2009@Amsterdam

Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER2009@Amsterdam is the 16th ENTER Conference bringing together international experts in all aspects of Information Communication Technologies in Travel and Tourism. In 2009, ENTER will move on to the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, taking place in the well-known RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre. Amsterdam is centrally located in Europe, easily accessible for international participants, and from its canals to famous historical sights one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in Europe. ENTER offers a unique forum for academic, industry and government representatives to explore the future of ICTs in Tourism through research and dynamic dialogue within the social network of the IFITT community. The chairs of ENTER 2009 are working hard to develop the most comprehensive programme ever for ENTER. With more than 150 presentations over 3 days and more than 450 participants, ENTER is THE event in Tourism and Technology that brings researchers, industry and destinations together. The three tracks, namely Research, Destinations and Industry are designed in a way that enables maximum exchange of information and interaction. Presentations and debates will explore the state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism. This year we will concentrate on ICT-enabled dynamic challenges for Travel and Tourism to cover both technology and business and there will also be plenty for local and national government agencies to consider. Issues discussed cover a wide range of cutting-edge challenges and the following gives a flavour of this:

  • Customer centricity
  • inspire consumers with ICTs
  • Recommender systems
  • Social networking & Travel
  • Web 2.0 and Travel 2.0
  • ICT-enabled segmentation
  • eTourism and disability
  • Accessible eTourism design
  • eLearning for Tourism
  • Direct vs indirect distribution
  • ICT-based Productivity
  • Reengineering tourism
  • eTourism and Pricing
  • Revenue Management
  • Web analytics
  • Online Security
  • ePayments
  • eBranding and brand integrity
  • Distribution strategies
  • ICT-enabled partnerships
  • Advanced distribution systems
  • Polling services
  • Travel Search and Metasearch
  • Interoperability & Interconnectivity
  • Web 3.0 and Travel 3.0
  • Destination web sites & Clusters
  • Advanced destination portals
  • Geographical Mash ups
  • Location Based Services
  • Wireless systems and WiMAX
  • Mobile solutions
  • Usability and web design
  • Multimedia convergence
  • Affiliate marketing online
  • Smart ICT investments
  • Online advertising

We look forward to welcome you to ENTER2009@Amsterdam and to engage you more with the IFITT global community.

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis
ENTER2009 Overall Chair
Email: dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Frew
IFITT Chair
Email: AFrew@qmu.ac.uk

Marc Dekkers
Heliview and Local Committee Chair
Email: Marc.dekkers@heliview.nl

 

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE 19th September 2008

Papers are invited across a wide spectrum of Information and Communication Technologies applied to the travel and tourism sectors. Applied industry research is particularly welcomed. The conference proceedings (published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York) will include the full text of all accepted research papers. An award for the best research paper will also be presented during the conference.

Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations. Please refer to the ‘Author Advice’ document as a style guide for standards to follow in the preparation of manuscripts.

Submission is in the form of full papers only, which must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform () by September 19th 2008. PLEASE USE THE ATTACHED AUTHORS ADVICE-All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed on a rolling basis by the review committee. Authors should receive initial feedback by October 6th 2008 at the latest. Final acceptance depends on the authors’ response to adequately address reviewers’ comments. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by October 17th 2008 and must register for the conference by November 17th 2008 in order to have their work included in the Conference Proceedings.

TIME SCHEDULE

Submit full paper 19th September 2008
Initial feedback 6th October 2008
Submit final revised paper 17th October 2008
Final acceptance 31st October 2008
Registration by 17th November 2008
Conference 28th – 30th January 2009

ENTER 2009 RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS

Research Track Chair: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Höpken, eTourism Competence Center Austria (wolfram.hoepken@etourism-austria.at)
Co-chair: Dr. Ulrike Gretzel, Texas A & M University, USA
Co-chair: Prof. Dr. Rob Law, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

 

CALL FOR Ph.D. RESEARCH PROPOSALS –ENTER 2009 Ph.D. RESEARCH WORKSHOP, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – TUESDAY, JANUARY 27th, 2009

As a preliminary event to ENTER 2009, IFITT will hold its prestigious annual Ph.D. Research Workshop for doctoral students undertaking research in Information and Communication Technology in Travel and Tourism. The workshop provides a forum for doctoral students to discuss their research with peers, colleagues, and leading supervisors and scholars in the field. Doctoral students at all stages (i.e. beginning as well as nearly completed) are encouraged to participate. The workshop is focusing on practical and methodological issues, research proposals and interim results of participating students.

The tentative program for the workshop follows:

  1. Registration and coffee
  2. Leading researchers discuss emerging issues in ICT and Travel & Tourism research, the process of conducting thesis research as well as guidelines for journal publishing.
  3. PhD candidates exhibit and briefly present their proposals in a “Research in Progress Session.” The presentations should introduce the ideas/issues explored in their thesis.
  4. Experienced supervisors from the IFITT ‘Faculty’ and students break into groups depending upon topic and extent of progress toward thesis completion. Participants in these parallel sessions discuss issues related to students’ research projects.
  5. At the end of the workshop, each group will summarize the key insights drawn during the break out sessions.
  6. Students, researchers and others gather for an informal post-workshop wind down and networking.
  7. Students are encouraged to join IFITT (www.ifitt.org) and participate in the interactive online database and continue their discussions.

The workshop invites all interested doctoral and prospective students to submit their research proposals. The research proposals should be of a maximum length of five pages (A4) and should typically include the following headings: 1) Problem definition; 2) Literature Review; 3) Conceptual Development and Hypotheses; 4) Proposed methodology; 5) Anticipated results; and, 6) References.

In your submission, please also indicate the extent of your progress toward completion of the thesis (i.e., thinking about it, just beginning the process, completed proposal, or have collected all the data, etc.). The research proposals will be available to all workshop participants prior to the ENTER 2009 conference and displayed throughout the day of the workshop.

Please note there is no cost to students or faculty for participating in the workshop. In addition the registration fee is heavily discounted for students to encourage active participation in the full ENTER 2009 conference (January 28th -30th). Full conference details are available from the conference website www.ifitt.org/enter, and all workshop materials and templates are available at www.phdworkshop.org

Please direct enquiries to Dr Matthias Fuchs and submit your research proposals any time no later than 30th September 2008. All submissions must use the appropriate workshop template

Workshop Chair Prof. Dr. Matthias Fuchs matthias.fuchs@miun.se Sweden Office: +46 63 19 58 12

Co-Chair Dr. Marianna Sigala m.sigala@aegean.gr

Co-Chair and Local Host Prof. Dr. Gert J. van der Pijl vanderpijl@few.eur.nl:

 

ENTER 2009 RESEARCH PROGRAMME REVIEW COMMITTEE*

ALFORD Philip, University of Bedfordshire, UK
BAGGIO Rodolfo, Bocconi University, Italy
BEDARD Francois, UQAM, Canada
BELDONA Srikanth, University of Delaware, USA
BIEGER Thomas, St. Gallen University, Switzerland
BONN Mark, Florida State University, USA
BÖSZÖRMENYI Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, Austria
BUHALIS Dimitrios, Bournemouth University, UK
CHRISTODOULIDOU Natasa, California State University, USA
CHRISTOU Evangelos, University of the Aegean, Greece
COBANOGLU Cihan, University of Delaware, USA
CONNOLLY Dan, University of Denver, USA
DANIELE Roberto, Oxford Brookes University, UK
EGGER Roman, Salzburg Univesity of Applied Sciences, Austria
FESENMAIER Daniel, Temple University, USA
FREW Andrew, Queen Margaret University College, UK
FUCHS Matthias, Mid-University, Sweden
GO Frank, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands
GOECKE Robert, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
GOVERS Robert, University of Leuven, Belgium
HAM Sunny, University of Kentucky, USA
HITZ Martin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
HOFACKER, Charles, Florida State University, USA
HU Clark, Temple University, USA
JUNG Timothy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
KLEIN Stefan, University of Münster, Germany
LUBBE, Berendien, Pretoria University, South Africa
MAGLOGIANNIS Ilias, University of Central Greece, Greece
MARCUSSEN Carl, Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Denmark
MATZLER Kurt, University of Innsbruck, Austria
McGRATH Michael, Victoria University, Australia
MICH, Luisa, University of Trento, Italy
MILLS Juline, Purdue University, USA
MILNE Simon, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
MINGHETTI Valeria, CISET-Ca’ Foscari University, Italy
MISTILIS Nina, University of New South Wales, Australia
MURPHY Jamie, University of Western Australia
O’CONNOR Peter, ESSEC Business School, France
PECHLANER, Harald, European Academy of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
PETTI Claudio, S.S. ISUFI – University of Salento, Italy
RICCI Francesco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
SCHARL Arno, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
SCHEGG Roland, University of Applied Sciences Valais, Switzerland
SCHERTLER Walter, University of Trier, Germany
SHELDON Pauline, University of Hawaii, USA
SIGALA Marianna, University of the Aegean, Greece
STEINER Thomas, Swiss School of Tourism, Switzerland
STOCK Oliviero, FBK-irst, Trento, Italy
TJOSTHEIM Ingvar, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
TUSCH Roland, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
VAN DER PIJL John, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
VAN HOOF Hubert, Penn State University, USA
WERTHNER Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
WÖBER, Karl, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
XIANG Zheng (Phil), University of Northern Texas, USA
ZANKER Markus, University Klagenfurt, Austria
ZINS Andreas, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

*Additional researchers will be invited to join the programme committee.