Delivering Technological Innovation in Tourism: Considerations in the Implementation of Decipher

The Influence of Technological Innovation on Tourism Enterprises’ Performance: A Comparative Study of Travel Agents and Hotels in Egypt

“…Innovation applications fall within the group of IT involving networked systems that focus on knowledge management and collaboration (Cooper, 2003). To be recognized as an innovation, a technology application must not only be new or creative, but should have: demonstrated market need; newness; technical soundness; processes for managing the risks involved in development; and user friendliness (Carson & Richards, 2004).…”

“…The literature clearly shows that some technologies systems are better structured to adopt and employ innovation than others (Carson & Richards, 2004). A number of information systems researchers such as (Corso & Paolucci, 2001;Dewett & Jones, 2001;Xu, Sharma, & Hackney, 2005) have assumed that IT is an important ingredient of innovation development.…”

Transaction Processing An Industry Performance Analyser for Tourism (IPAT)

“…Decipher was developed by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre as an online store of tourism statistics, data sets, and research reports relating to tourism in Australia. Decipher has been described in several previous articles, including Sharma, Carson, and DeLacy (2000) and Carson, Taylor, and Richards (2003). Finally, ACTC was considering implementing an online booking system (for sales functions as distinct from the merely promotional functions of the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse) to operate in partnership with its Visitor Information Centre.…”