will provide something - perhaps on cultural tourism
 
 
Best Regards
 
Dimitrios
 
 
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University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, England, UK
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Wayne Pease
Lecturer
Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Business
Wide Bay Campus
University of Southern Queensland
Ph +61 (0)7 41206123
USQ CRICOS No. 00244B
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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2005



"Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry"

A book edited by Wayne Pease, University of Southern Queensland, Australia,

Michelle Rowe, Edith Cowan University, Australia and

Prof. Malcolm Cooper, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan



Introduction

Tourism is perhaps the leading industry worldwide. In 2004, the tourism sector represented approximately 10.4 percent of global Gross Domestic Product and provided approximately 214 million jobs, or 8.1 percent of global employment, and is continuing to grow.  One of the opportunity/problem areas is in the exchange of information within and external to the tourism industry. New information technologies are dramatically transforming spatial relationships within the industry, at every scale from local to global. This book will examine that process of transformation. It will be about the changes that modern electronic communications are supporting, or could support, in the world of tourism, not only geographically but in terms of culture, economics, marketing, social and regional issues.



The Overall Objective of the Book

The book will be an in-depth examination of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the area of tourism (cybertourism) from a theoretical as well as a practical viewpoint, in an edited paper format. The main aim of the book is to enhance the reader's knowledge - especially from a multidisciplinary perspective rather than from an individual functional perspective - of cybertourism, as well as exploring the role of information technology in the evolving world of tourism in the 21st Century.  This book will overview the development of cybertourism from a number of perspectives, including historical, geographical and social viewpoints while focusing on the Asia Pacific region. Cybertourism is best examined in terms of its social ramifications, and especially their geographical and political and economic (or political economy) contexts, at and between different levels, including the local, the regional and the global.



The Target Audience

Professionals, students and researchers working in the fields of tourism and information and communication technologies (ICT) are the target audience for this book.  At the same time, the book will be pitched at a level so as to also appeal to a more general readership in the tourism industry sector.  Moreover, the book, by demonstrating the increasing importance of tourism in the university curriculum, will have an appeal as a core book for tourism courses at the university level in the Asia Pacific, European, and North American regions.  This book would be a ready-made teaching resource for the tourism training institutes in less-developed countries. The book aims to create a knowledge resource with which to describe best practice in tourism and the use of ICT within this industry sector.



Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:



·         Tourism in the 21st Century

·         Current usage of information technology in the Tourism industry

·         Property management systems

·         Central reservation systems

·         Global distribution systems

·         The Internet as a tourism marketing tool

·         Use of intelligent agents/systems in tourism

·         Local and regional political, economic and social dimensions of the development of information technology as it relates to tourism

·         Emerging cultural issues in tourism

·         Cultural tourism

·         Virtual reality and tourism

·         Use of ubiquitous devices in tourism

·         Tourism and the wireless revolution

·         Emerging security issues in tourism (both personal and national)

·         Collaboration and co-opetition in  tourism

·         Role of small to medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) in global tourism

·         Strategic approaches to the use of ICT in tourism

·         The future of global tourism

·         Role of tourism bureaus in local and global tourism networks

·         Effectiveness of centralized tourism bodies




SUBMISSION PROCEDURE


Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 15, 2005, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 31, 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by January 31, 2006. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints.



Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:


Wayne Pease


Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Business
Wide Bay Campus
University of Southern Queensland
Tel: +61 7 41206123 Fax: +61 7 41206173

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