[AISWorld] CFP AMCIS 2013: Green, Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Tourism Practices and the Role of Information Technologies

[Chulmo Koo]

*Green IS and Sustainability*

*Minitrack - AMCIS - 2013*


Affiliated with: The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)
15 - 17 August 2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA,
http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/<http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/>


AMCIS 2013 calls for submission for a special issue on sustainable tourism
focusing on the use and impact of information technologies (IT) for
increasing the efficiency and sustainability of environment as well as
minimizing its impact on the environment addressing all of the three
different effects of IT on the tourism and hospitality:

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*Dimitrios Buhalis*

Professor of School of Tourism

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Email: dbuhalis at bournemouth.ac.uk

*Cihan Cobanoglu*

College of Hospitality & Technology Leadership

University of South Florida

Email: cihan at cihan.org

*Ulli Gretzel*

Associate Professor of e Institute for Innovation in Business and Social
Research

The University of Wollongong, Australia

Email: ugretzel at uow.edu.au

*Chulmo Koo*

Assistant Professor of College of Hotel and Tourism Management

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

helmetgu at khu.ac.kr

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*DESCRIPTION*

*Tourism industry: *Developing innovative IT-enhanced products and
processes which profoundly change ways of traveling and consumption towards
more sustainability. *Tourist behavior: *Providing eco-friendly options for

travelers and using IT to change travel-related attitudes and
behaviors. *Destination:
*Ensuring that tourism offers

economic, social and environmental benefits to local businesses, people,
and communities by means of IT. Owing to the substantial impact of
international tourism growth, this field is attracting great attention from
policy makers, practitioners, and researchers alike. In this endeavor IT
plays a critical role in enabling triple bottom line compliance, comprising
environmental, economic, and social destination sustainability. Tourism
research is increasingly addressing issues related to sustainable tourism
including energy consumption, green convention, ecotourism, electronic
tourism, and environmental sustainability. Given the with the close
relationship between IT and sustainable tourism context, the role of IT
usage for travelers, local communities and businesses is becoming more
important and enormous.

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*SUGGESTED TOPICS*



We invite researchers to submit original papers that include empirical,
analytical, design-oriented, and conceptual approaches that are relevant
for this important topic and provide new insights for theory and practice.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:



  The role of IS in sustainable tourism business models

  Increasing sustainability in tourism supply chains and logistics

  Environmentally-friendly planning, operation and control of decentralized
tourism facilities

  IS or tourism theories for sustainability-related issues

  Tourist' IS adoption, diffusion, and usage behavior for a sustainable
tourism

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*POST-CONFERENCE*

After the workshop, the best papers will be invited for submission to
*Information
Systems Frontiers,  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology*

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Chulmo Koo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Convention Business Department
The College of Hotel & Tourism Management
Kyung Hee University
26 Kyunghee-daero, Heogi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701,
Republic of Korea
Office:+82-2-961-2349 / Fax:+82-2-964-2537
Mobile:+82-10-2505-1393
e-mail: helmetgu at khu.ac.kr
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