Abstract
The International Conference on IT and Travel & Tourism (ENTER), which is organized by the International Federal of Information Technology on Travel & Tourism (IFITT), represents the world’s largest annual academic and applied research conference on IT and tourism. Worldwide attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations, who are interested in tourism information technology, could take this opportunity to exchange their ideas and discuss the development trends for the IT in the tourism industry. By doing so, this made the proceedings being one of the most important publication channels of tourism information technology research. This study examines 17 issues (1994–2010) of ENTER conference proceedings to get an overview of research contributions on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism in terms of countries/regions, individual researchers and affiliated institutes.
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Liu, W., Zhong, L., Ip, C., Leung, D. (2011). An analysis of research on tourism information technology: The case of ENTER proceedings. In: Law, R., Fuchs, M., Ricci, F. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0503-0_24
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