[AISWorld] Smart Tourism: CfP

[Chulmo Koo]

Special Issue on How Technology-Enhanced Tourism is Transforming Societies,
Cultures, and Economies
------------------------------

Short Title:
Special Issue: Smart Tourism

Information and communication technology is transforming travel behaviors
and tourism businesses. The smart, connected tourism industries consist of
an amalgam of third parties (transportation, accommodation, restaurants,
cultural attractions & heritage sites, entertainment & leisure activities,
and central & local governments) working together to drive social,
cultural, and economic growth. This results in convergences with multitudes
of other sectors, such as healthcare (medical tourism), environmental
conservation (eco-tourism), retail, art, and craft (shopping tourism),
study abroad programs (educational tourism), etc. Technology allows these
tourism businesses to move the social systems forward in generating new,
creative values based on the digital convergence of the processes and value
chains that no single business in a particular industry could achieve
alone. That is, technology enhances the symbiotic relationships among the
different players in tourism. Technology-enhanced tourism generates
valuable products and services to ensure economic growth and, at the same
time, contributes to social progress, both are crucial in a modern society.
Therefore, this special issue attempts to provide guidelines for
technology-enhanced tourism that creates valuable social change.

We invite researchers to submit original papers that include empirical,
analytical, design-oriented, or conceptual approaches relevant for this
important topic and provide new insights for theory and practice. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Technologies for tourism and social change
   - Smart technologies for tour operators and travel agencies
   - Smart technologies for tourism destinations
   - Electronic brokerage and marketplaces for tourists, agencies, and
   vendors
   - Electronic marketplaces through social network services
   - IT architectures and models for smart tourism  (e.g., e-tourism or
   smart services)
   - Developments and barriers regarding interoperability and standards
   - Acceptance, adoption, diffusion, and infusion of smart tourism
   technologies, products, or devices
   - Ensuring privacy and security in smart tourism infrastructures
   - Creative tourism solution and approaches
   - Policy, strategy, and management of tourism
   - Online & Computer Reservation Systems
   - Business intelligence for smart tourism technologies and services
   - Mobile solutions for the tourism industry
   - IS theories for tourism-related issues
   - Research methods for the analysis of smart tourism related phenomena

Forms of submission

This special issue will invite some attractive papers with IT-related
topics in tourism at conferences such as:

   - PACIS 2015 Conference (IT and Open Innovation), Marina Bay Sands,
   Singapore, 6-9 July, 2015.
   - ICEC 2015 Conference (Application of Big Data in e-Commerce), Seoul,
   Korea, 3-5 August, 2015.
   - ICIS2015 Conference
   - ENTER2016 Conference

In the case of conference papers, the submission is required to be a
substantial revision of the conference publication and the authors will be
required to submit a letter detailing the difference between their
conference paper and the new version. If the paper does not receive a
satisfactory review, it will not be considered for the special issue.

Guest Editors

Chulmo Koo (Managing guest editor)
Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Email: helmetgu at khu.ac.kr

Iis Tussyadiah

Washington State University Vancouver, USA
Email: iis.tussyadiah at vancouver.wsu.edu

William Cannon Hunter

Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Email: primalamerica at yahoo.com

Important Dates

Submission Open: September 1, 2015
Paper Submission Deadline: 30 March 2016
Initial Review Report:  31 May 2016
Final Revised Manuscript: 31 July 2016
Publication Issue TBA

About the Guest Editors

*Chulmo Koo* is an Associate Professor in College of Hotel & Tourism
Management, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is teaching Management
Information Systems and Electronic Business & Commerce courses in College
of Hotel & Tourism Management. He is finalizing for the special issue of
"Smart Tourism: Convergence of Information Technologies, Experiences, and
Theories” in the Electronic Market Journal (SSCI). Currently, he is
responsible for the special issue of “Smart Tourism Systems: Convergence of
Information Technologies, Business Models and Experiences,” for Computers
in Human Behavior (SSCI), also he will be a guest editor entitled
“Generative Smart Tourism Systems: Man-Machine Interaction,” for
International Journal of Information Management (SSCI) in 2015. His
research has been focusing on IT adoption, diffusion, and infusion in the
context of tourism and hospitality tourism. He has been invited as a guest
editor such as journal of universal computer sciences, information systems
frontiers, and electronic markets and served as a track chair, minitrack
chair, and associate editor in the PACIS, AMCIS, ENTER. His papers were
published in the mainstream IS journals and tourism journals.

*Iis Tussyadiah* is an Associate Clinical Professor with the School of
Hospitality Business Management in the Carson College of Business at
Washington State University Vancouver, USA, where she teaches hospitality
and tourism research, social media marketing, and service design in
hospitality operations. Her research interests lie in the intersection of
the development in information and communication technologies and tourism
experiences. She has published in leading tourism journals. She served as
research track chair of ENTER2014 and ENTER2015 eTourism conferences and
editor of “Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014” and
“Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2015,” published by
Springer. She also serves as a guest editor for a special issue on “Smart
Destinations” for Journal of Destination Marketing and Management. She also
serves as Vice President of the International Federation of Information
Technologies in Travel & Tourism (IFITT) for the period of 2014 – 2016.

*William Cannon Hunter* is Professor in the Department of Convention
Management at the College of Hotel and Tourism Management, Kyung Hee
University, Seoul (since 2009). He earned a Ph.D. at Texas A&M (1999) in
the United States. He has lived and worked in Asia for over 20 years. Dr.
Hunter’s major research interests focus on exploring destination imagery,
cultural representations and subjectivity using Q and V methods. He has
published a number of articles in SSCI international journals and is
involved in indigenous issues related to tourism and sustainability. He
works with the UN organization, ICLEI (Local Governments for
Sustainability) in Korea and lectures on culture and tourism-related topics
in the Asia region.

-- 
*****************************
Chulmo Koo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, 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
*****************************