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Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems

Selected Papers from ICOTTS20, Volume 2

  • Presents high-quality research in the areas of tourism, technology, and systems

  • Features the outcomes of ICOTTS 2020, held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

  • Serves as a reference resource for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST, volume 209)

Conference series link(s): ICOTTS: International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems

Conference proceedings info: ICOTTS 2020.

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Table of contents (53 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Smart Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Publications from the Scopus and Web of Science Databases

    • Maria I. B. Ribeiro, António J. G. Fernandes, Isabel M. Lopes
    Pages 1-14
  3. The Potential of Adventure Tourism in the Azores: Focusing on the Regional Strategic Planning

    • Gualter Couto, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Pedro Pimentel, Célia Barreto Carvalho, Áurea Sousa
    Pages 15-25
  4. TourExponomy: Development of a Conceptual Model of the Relationship Between the Tourist Experience at the Destination and Destination Image

    • Helena Maria Pascoal Melo, Ana Isabel Damião de Serpa Arruda Moniz, Francisco José Ferreira Silva, Carlos Alberto Silva Melo Santos
    Pages 66-75
  5. An Innovation in Tourism Services in Colombia – Case Study of Bahía Solano

    • Gabriela Antošová, Mauricio Sabogal Salamanca, Mauricio Peralta Mejía
    Pages 76-85
  6. Managing Motivation (Outside) Business Contexts: Tourism and Teambuilding

    • Jéssica Ferreira, Nuno Costa, Bruno Sousa
    Pages 86-95
  7. Perception of Safety Tourism in Colombia

    • Gabriela Antošová, Luís Lima Santos, Sara Stradová
    Pages 96-105
  8. Folklore and Tourism: Folk Dance Groups as a Strategy to Promote the Development of Cultural Tourism

    • Emanuel Bohórquez, Maritza Pérez, Arturo Benavides, William Caiche
    Pages 106-113
  9. Regional Competitiveness and the Productivity Performance of Gazelles in Cultural Tourism

    • Eleonora Santos, Inês Lisboa, Jacinta Moreira, Neuza Ribeiro
    Pages 114-124
  10. Room Semantics and Terms in Hotel Chains Communication

    • Ronald Ojino, Luisa Mich, Nerey Mvungi
    Pages 142-152
  11. Could Virtual Reality Substitute the ‘Real’ Experience? Evidence from a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Portugal

    • Nieves Losada, Filipa Jorge, Mário Sérgio Teixeira, Miguel Melo, Maximino Bessa
    Pages 153-161
  12. PANAS-TDL: A Psychrometric Deep Learning Model for Characterizing Sentiments of Tourists Against the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter

    • Alejandro Peña, Jorge Mesias, Alejandro Patiño, Joao Vidal Carvalho, Gregorio Gomez, Kevin Ibarra et al.
    Pages 162-176
  13. The Online Presence and Communication of a Destination by the Tourist Entities of the Terras de Trás-os-Montes

    • Madalena Marinho, Elisabete Paulo Morais, Ricardo Correia
    Pages 202-211
  14. Are Smart City Applications Aiming to Improve Tourist Experience Ready for Translation and Dissemination?

    • Nelson Pacheco Rocha, Ana Dias, Gonçalo Santinha, Mário Rodrigues, Carlos Rodrigues, Alexandra Queirós
    Pages 212-221

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About this book

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2020), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 29th to 31st October 2020. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and technology in tourism, digital marketing applied to tourism and travel, mobile technologies applied to sustainable tourism, information technologies in tourism, digital transformation of tourism business, e-tourism and tourism 2.0, big data and management for travel and tourism, geotagging and tourist mobility, smart destinations, robotics in tourism, and information systems and technologies.

Keywords

  • Technology in Tourism and Tourist Experience
  • Generations and Technology in Tourism
  • Digital Marketing
  • Tourism, Wellness and Hospitality
  • Information Technologies in Tourism
  • Digital Transformation of Tourism Business
  • eTourism and Tourism 2.0
  • Health Tourism
  • Information Technologies in Ecotourism and Agritourism

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP), Polytechnic of Porto, São Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    António Abreu

  • School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Vila do Conde, Portugal

    Dália Liberato

  • Facultade de Ciencias Empresariais e Turismo As Lagoas, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Elisa Alén González

  • Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia

    Juan Carlos Garcia Ojeda

About the editors

António Abreu is Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto. He completed postdoctorate in Technologies and Information Systems, Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Ph.D. in Software Engineering based on reusable components with Human–Machine Interface applications, University of Vigo, and Master in Management Informatics from the University of Minho and Licentiate in Informatics–Mathematics Applied by Universidade Lusíada. He currently works as Lecturer in the Information Systems sciences area of the Polytechnic Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto/Politécnico do Porto, ISCAP/PPorto. He is an effective member of the CEOS.PP Research Center – Center for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Oporto. Between 2015 and 2018, he was Coordinator of the Advanced Professional Technical Courses (CTeSP) of the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP) and Coordinator for Market Development of ISCAP’s Center for Training and Services Abroad. 2017/2018 – Coordinator of the ISCAP/ACINNET Business Council. He is Conference Chair of the ICOTTS 2019 – The 2019 International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems. He is a scientific committee member of several conferences in the area of Information Systems and Technologies.

Dália Liberato is Professor of Tourism, specializing in tourism destinations management and tourism planning, at the School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto. Currently, she coordinates the Tourist Activities Management degree in the same school. Her main research interests are tourism management, tourism planning, cross-border tourism, creative tourism, and e-tourism.

Elisa Alén is Associate Professor of Marketing specializing in tourism marketing at the Faculty of Business Sciences and Tourism, University of Vigo. Elisa’s research work lies in tourist behaviour, from motivation to behavioural intentions, focusing on improving satisfaction. In recent years, she has focused on different types of tourism, mainly thermal and senior tourism.

Juan Carlos Garcia Ojeda is Tenure-Track Professor at the Universidad de Cartagena (Colombia). He completed Ph.D. in Science Technology from the University of Pannonia (Hungary), M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kansas State University (USA), M.Sc. in Computer Science from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico) in agreement with the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia), and B.Sc. from Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Colombia). He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), State Alumni (US Department of State), Colombia-USA Exchange Alumni Association; also, Regional Promoter, for the Caribbean region, of the Colombian Society of Computation (SCo2). He has published several papers in both national and international journals, book chapters, and a book and participated and presented papers in national and international conferences.


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Hardcover Book USD 279.99
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