The convergence of information technology, the Internet and telecommunication industry generated massive changes in the tourist industry. ICTs have been rapidly adopted by tourist businesses and authorities in a bid to gaining advantage over competitors. e-Tourism emerged as a promising revision of the previous business models and initiatives related to tourism, with the advent of web technologies. ‘Mobile tourism’ extended the notion of e-Tourism to meet the vision of tourist services provision to nomadic users with no spatial–temporal restrictions. The recent developments in mobile hardware and software allowed for the provision of a new range of personalized, context-aware services that were not previously feasible.
Special issue on Mobile and Pervasive Applications in Tourism / Gavalas, Damianos; Choubassi, Maha El; Crespo, Ángel García; Bellavista, Paolo. - In: PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING. - ISSN 1574-1192. - STAMPA. - 18:(2015), pp. 1-3. [10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.10.001]
Special issue on Mobile and Pervasive Applications in Tourism
BELLAVISTA, PAOLO
2015
Abstract
The convergence of information technology, the Internet and telecommunication industry generated massive changes in the tourist industry. ICTs have been rapidly adopted by tourist businesses and authorities in a bid to gaining advantage over competitors. e-Tourism emerged as a promising revision of the previous business models and initiatives related to tourism, with the advent of web technologies. ‘Mobile tourism’ extended the notion of e-Tourism to meet the vision of tourist services provision to nomadic users with no spatial–temporal restrictions. The recent developments in mobile hardware and software allowed for the provision of a new range of personalized, context-aware services that were not previously feasible.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
