[AISWorld] Special Issue in I&M - Smart Tourism: Traveler, Business, and Organizational Perspectives

[Jaehyun Park]

멋지네요!

감사합니다.
좋은 월요일 저녁되세요.

박재현 드림

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jae-Nam Lee <isjnlee at korea.ac.kr> wrote:

> Information and Management
>
>
>
> Special Issue on Smart Tourism: Traveler, Business, and Organizational
> Perspectives
>
>
>
> (
> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-management/call-for-papers/smart-tourism-traveler-business-and-organizational/
> )
>
>
>
> *Guest Editors *
>
> Chulmo Koo, *College of Hotel and Tourism Management, Kyung Hee
> University (South Korea)*
>
> Jaehyun Park, *Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of
> Technology (Japan)*
>
> Jae-Nam Lee, *Korea University Business School (South Korea)*
>
>
>
> *Challenges and Opportunities in Smart Tourism*
>
> Smart tourism highlights digital convergence in content, device, and
> service Tourism. The convergence of tourism and Information Technology (IT)
> has provided a variety of new features and functions of IT-enabled
> products, systems, and services in tourism and hospitality business. These
> IT-innovations have led to the exceptional growth of multiple tourism and
> hospitality organizations (e.g. Airbnb, Yelp, Uber, Couchsurfing and Google
> Maps). As a result, these tourism-related information service and platforms
> have increased the number of tourists and enabled individual travelers to
> easily and efficiently manage their travelling schedule, especially as
> regards their traveling patterns (e.g., preference, time, space, and
> budget). However, the radically changing IT-enabled tourism and hospitality
> business have encountered a variety of challenges. The main challenge is
> grasping the context of tourists’ behaviors, emotions, and latent factors
> to create new business and service applications. Technology-enhanced
> tourism may generate valuable products and services to ensure unexpected
> economic growth and to contribute to the digital society. Therefore, smart
> tourism significantly contributes to this phenomenon.
>
>
>
> Furthermore, technology may challenge a human-centered approach for
> transforming travel behaviors and the tourism business. To address this
> particular challenge, smart tourism needs to adopt a user-centered design
> beyond the technology and system perspectives. Participatory design and the
> design thinking approach serve as methodological directions for identifying
> the complex tourists’ contexts and their latent information environments.
> Using these design approaches, we will elucidate not only
> technology-enhanced tourism but also contextual inquiries to deal with
> latent tourists’ behavioral patterns, communication protocols, media
> preference, and decision-making process in travel. Based on the findings of
> the special issue, tourism and hospitality business and organization can
> synthesize new business models and applications to migrate toward smart
> tourism.
>
>
>
> *Topics in Smart Tourism*
>
> The special issue’s particular interest is on papers that focus on (1)
> traveler-centered design: designing tourists’ behaviors (2) smart tourism
> business networks, and (3) service design: design contents, products,
> devices, and process innovations. Understanding the changes and trends in
> tourism through IT involvement and their effect on travel business can
> provide valuable theoretical and practical implications to tourism
> industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
>
>
>
> --- Concepts and theories of smart tourism
>
> --- Case studies of smart tourism
>
> --- Technologies for design tourism
>
> --- Electronic brokerage and marketplaces
>
> --- Swarms, social network services and collective decision making
>
> --- IT architectures and models for design tourism
>
> --- Design business models and the role of IT
>
> --- Barriers and ingredients for the developments of design smart systems
>
> --- Acceptance, adoption, and diffusion of design tourism systems
>
> --- Ensure privacy and security in designing tourism infrastructures
>
> --- Effect of design technologies on traditional tourism
>
> --- Policy, strategy, and management of design tourism
>
> --- Design tourism business process
>
> --- Network analysis of a networked tourism industry
>
> --- Business intelligence for design tourism technologies and services
>
> --- Research methods for the analysis of design tourism-related phenomena
>
>
>
> *Important Dates*
>
> --- Submission Period Due: From February 1, 2016 to February 28, 2016
>
> --- First Round Decisions: May 15, 2016
>
> --- Major Revisions if needed: July 30, 2016
>
> --- Second Round Decisions: September 30, 2016
>
> --- Minor Revisions if needed: November 30, 2016
>
> --- Final Decision: December 30, 2016
>
> --- Publication Date: By the mid-2017
>
>
>
> *Paper Submission*
>
> We welcome papers from a wide range of disciplines as well as papers based
> on either quantitative or qualitative approaches. Implications of findings
> for theory and practice are essential and we encourage papers that extend
> existing theories.
>
>
>
> All the submitted papers will go through a rigorous review process as that
> for the regular paper submissions. Papers that pass the initial screening
> will undergo no more than two rounds of revision. Papers not accepted by
> the end of the second round of revision will be rejected. Given the tight
> schedule, there will not be enough time for major revision. Therefore when
> preparing your submission, it is strongly required to try your best to make
> your paper publishable as it is.
>
>
>
> Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All
> submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality,
> significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue
> topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under
> consideration for another journal. Authors are instructed to follow the
> Guide for Authors and submission guidelines for the journal at the
> journal’s website,
> http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-and-management/0378-7206/guide-for-authors,
> and to choose "Special Issue: Smart Tourism" as the paper type in the
> online submission system.
>
>
>
> Further enquiries about the special issue can be directed to Chulmo Koo (
> helmetgu at khu.ac.kr), Jaehyun Park (park.j.ai at m.titech.ac.jp) or Jae-Nam
> Lee (isjnlee at korea.ac.kr).
>
>
>



-- 
Best Regards,

Jaehyun Park, PhD
Assistant Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management | Tokyo Institute of Technology