Tourist Information Delivered Through Mobile Devices: Findings from the Image Project

Edwards, Simon; Blythe, PT; Scott, Stephen; Guo, Aw

doi:10.3727/109830506778193887

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“…singles, couples (both married and non-married; traditional and same-sex), families with children and larger holidaying groups, such as parties of friends (Decrop and Kozak, 2006). Future research on vacation decision making should consider how the type of vacation impacts on decision processes as well, and continue to investigate the impact of consumer use of the internet, Web 2.0 technologies, user generated web content and mobile electronic devices (Edwards et al, 2006). Finally, the authors encourage further research into the socio-psychological variables that underlie vacation decision making.…”

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confidence: 96%

New perspectives on vacation decision making

Hyde

Decrop²

2011

International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/ authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper introduces the seven empirical studies on vacation decision making in this special issue of IJCTHR. The paper compares the findings of these seven studies to traditional models of vacation decision making, and highlights a number of new perspectives for research into vacation decision making.Findings -Five themes appear in these contemporary studies of vacation decision making: the multifaceted nature of the vacation; joint decision making by members of the household; impact of the type of vacation trip on the decision making process; the role of the internet in vacation decision making; and the role of socio-psychological variables in vacation decision making.Research limitations/implications -The paper provides recommendations for future research in vacation decision making, in light of contemporary changes in the travel and tourism industry.Originality/value -The value of this paper lies in its review of traditional approaches to researching vacation decision making, and advice provided for future research on the topic.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

New perspectives on vacation decision making

Hyde

Decrop²

2011

International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…A simplified version of tAm has also been tested in the adoption of various mobile devices and services: mobile Internet (Cheong & Park, 2005;Hong, thing, & tam, 2006 banking (luarn & lin, 2005), and mobile commerce (wu & wang, 2005). However, to date, basic tAm concepts have not been frequently used to examine the adoption of mobile travel services: there are a few notable exceptions (edwards et al, 2006;eriksson & Strandvik, 2009;rasinger et al, 2007;riebeck et al, 2008). thus, we posit the following hypotheses: h1: Perceived usefulness has a positive effect on the use of mobile travel services.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…As pointed out by Buhalis (2003), tourism and technology go hand in hand. meanwhile, mobile tourist applications and mobile personalized information or recommender systems for tourists and travelers are being developed (e.g., Ahas, Aasa, roose, mark, & Silm, 2008;Carlsson & walden, 2010;edwards, Blythe, Scott, & weihong-Guo, 2006;Kenteris, Gavalas, & economou, 2009;meng, Poslad, & wang, 2009;wan, 2009). thus far, however, the number of studies that have examined the acceptance of mobile travel services is rather limited (edwards et al, 2006;eriksson & Strandvik, 2009;Katsura & Sheldon, 2008;rasinger, Fuchs, & Höpken, 2007;riebeck, Stark, modsching, & Kawalek, 2008).…”

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Mobile Travel Services: The Effect of Moderating Context Factors

Bouwman¹,

Carlsson²,

López‐Nicolás³

et al. 2011

Information Technology & Tourism

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this article has two objectives: (1) to draw an international comparison regarding the acceptance of mobile travel services in three countries with different profiles when it comes to travelling and mobile telecommunications, and (2) to extend relevant literature on mobile applications, more specifically travel services, by including context-related concepts, taking moderating factors like location, mobility of users, physical, and social context into account. Based on surveys that were carried out in 2009, structural equation modeling is used to identify differences in patterns in the use of mobile travel services and in the role of context-related variables. the conclusion of this article is that context-related factors, that is, mobility and (physical and social) context, have an impact on the relationship between the core concepts of technology Acceptance model (tAm) and Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) research. many studies on the acceptance and use of mobile services indicate that a deep understanding is needed of individual, context-related, and technological characteristics and the way they interact. this is also highly relevant to the travel industry, which wants to utilize the opportunities provided by mobile technology.

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“…GUIDE takes into account the user profile, but tourists still have to select the places of interest themselves; GUIDE only provides choices. DEEP MAp, CRUMPET (Schmidt-Belz et al, 2003) and IMAGE (Edwards et al, 2006) are present-day European projects dealing with the possible benefits of mobile tourist guides. Apart from shortest-path optimisation, none of the above mentioned guides apply OR techniques.…”

Section: Present-day Mtgsmentioning

confidence: 99%