<div dir="ltr"><p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Helvetica-Bold">CFP AMCIS 2013: Green, Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Tourism Practices and
the Role of Information Technologies</span></b></p>
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<p class="" align="left"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Helvetica-BoldOblique">Green IS and Sustainability</span></i></b></p>
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<p class=""><span class=""><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Minitrack - AMCIS -
2013</span></u></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"><br>
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<span class="">Affiliated with: The Americas Conference on
Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><br>
</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">15 - 17 August 2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA,</span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">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:</span></p>
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<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Bold">Dimitrios
Buhalis</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Professor of
School of Tourism</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Bournemouth
University, United Kingdom</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Email:
<a href="mailto:dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk">dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk</a></span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Bold">Cihan
Cobanoglu</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">College of
Hospitality & Technology Leadership</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">University
of South Florida</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Email:
<a href="mailto:cihan@cihan.org">cihan@cihan.org</a></span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Bold">Ulli
Gretzel</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Associate
Professor of e Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">The
University of Wollongong, Australia</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Email:
<a href="mailto:ugretzel@uow.edu.au">ugretzel@uow.edu.au</a></span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Bold">Chulmo
Koo</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Assistant
Professor of College of Hotel and Tourism Management</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Kyung Hee
University, South Korea</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times-Roman"><a href="mailto:helmetgu@khu.ac.kr">helmetgu@khu.ac.kr</a></span></p>
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<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica-Bold">DESCRIPTION</span></b></p>
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<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Bold">Tourism
industry: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman">Developing
innovative IT-enhanced products and processes which profoundly change ways of traveling
and consumption towards more sustainability. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Bold">Tourist behavior: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman">Providing eco-friendly options for</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman">travelers
and using IT to change travel-related attitudes and behaviors. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Bold">Destination: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman">Ensuring that tourism offers</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman">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.</span></p>
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<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica-Bold">SUGGESTED TOPICS</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman"> </span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times-Roman">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. </span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">The role of IS in sustainable
tourism business models</span><br></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Increasing sustainability in
tourism supply chains and logistics</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Environmentally-friendly
planning, operation and control of decentralized tourism facilities</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">IS or tourism theories for
sustainability-related issues</span></p>
<p class="" align="left"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Tourist’ IS adoption,
diffusion, and usage behavior for a sustainable tourism</span></p>
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<p class="" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica-Bold">POST-CONFERENCE</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia,serif">After the workshop, the best papers will be invited for submission to <i>Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology</i></span></p>
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Republic of Korea <br>Office:+82-2-961-2349 / Fax:+82-2-964-2537 <br>Mobile:+82-10-2505-1393 <br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:helmetgu@khu.ac.kr" target="_blank">helmetgu@khu.ac.kr</a> <br>*****************************
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