Mobile technologies and applications towards smart tourism–state of the art

J Dorcic, J Komsic, S Markovic - Tourism Review, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The popularity of mobile technologies and applications is constantly growing and
undoubtedly changing consumers' and providers' behavior. The purpose of this study is to …

[PDF][PDF] Social media adoption: barriers to the strategic use of social media in SMEs

M Beier, K Wagner - 2016 - scholar.archive.org
Social media adoption by firms has generally increased over time; however, little is known
about why small firms do or do not use these digital technologies. Using a survey of 268 …

Gamification in ecology-oriented mobile applications—typologies and purposes

A Torres-Toukoumidis, DV León, A De-Santis… - Societies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mobile applications viewed as digital social change tools are focused on sustainable
development, particularly in topics that address ecology and the environment. In this …

The strange case of dating apps at a gay resort: Hyper-local and virtual-physical leisure

O Vorobjovas-Pinta, IJ Dalla-Fontana - Tourism Review, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report novel information about the use of gay apps
by the patrons of an exclusively gay resort in Queensland, Australia. This novel research …

[PDF][PDF] A convergence of mobile device application use and smart tourism: A comparison of Korean and Non-Korean smart tourists

BS Brennan - 인터넷전자상거래연구, 2020 - academia.edu
… Abstract… This paper aims to identify mobile device (smartphone) application (apps)
usage by Korean and non-Korean tourists within South Korea (Korea); to classify these …

Design and analysis of mobile-based tourism security application: concepts, artifacts and challenges

D Shrestha, T Wenan, B Adhikari, D Shrestha… - … and Electronics Systems …, 2021 - Springer
Tourism security has become a matter of great concern over the years for tourists around the
world, and this attribute plays an important role in the selection of a destination. The …

New avenues in mobile tourism

C Guerreiro, E Cambria… - 2020 international joint …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes the increasing importance of mobile technologies in the tourism
industry by reviewing, examining and synthesizing studies related to it. The main aim of this …

[HTML][HTML] Location-based services in tourism: An empirical analysis of factors influencing usage behaviour

PO Uphaus, A Ehlers, H Rau - European Journal of Tourism …, 2019 - books.google.com
This contribution focuses on tourists' usage behaviour of Location-Based Services (LBS)
during their vacation. LBS represents technologies that localise a user's mobile device …

Mobile Applications in Tourism: A Tale of Two Perspectives

G Dinis, MC Lopes, A Proença - International Conference on Advanced …, 2022 - Springer
The evolution of mobile devices has allowed the development of features, such as mobile
applications (apps), which have contributed to making tourism services and destinations …

[PDF][PDF] Barriers seen by potential local Providers of Applications using Location-Based Services

PO Uphaus, O Neuper, B Beringer… - LBS 2019; Adjunct …, 2019 - zora.uzh.ch
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