Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Information Technology and Tourism [ITT] is the first scientific journal dealing with the exciting relationship between Information Technology and Tourism. Information and communication systems embedded in a global net have profound influence on the travel and tourism industry. Reservation systems, distributed multi-media systems, highly mobile working places, electronic markets, and the dominant position of tourism applications in the Internet as well as the use of these in scholarly tourism research are noticeable results of this development. In addition, tourism poses several significant challenges to the IT field as a whole.

Advances in the use and development of tools, technologies, and methodologies that have facilitated the efficient netting of information and communication systems in travel and tourism are covered by this journal. Information Technology & Tourism aims to contribute to the process of theory building, and hence to the advancement of research and scholarship in this growing field. As a mulitdisciplinary journal it is the dialectic bridge between information technology and tourism research where both fields may influence each other. The need for such an exchange and scholarship can be reasoned by the growing number of annual TIS conferences worldwide which each year attract large and growing audiences.

Information Technology & Tourism focuses both on academia perspectives and practical applications, it will feature empirical case studies as well as technical-theoretical papers examining tourism from an IT point of view and IT from a tourism point of view - a treatment quite attractive for researchers in both fields.

TOPICS

ITT will focus on the following areas:

  • Information and reservation systems
  • Computer Reservation Systems/Global Distribution Systems
  • Management information systems
  • Distributed systems - WAN's
  • Internet services and WorldWideWeb
  • Graphical user interface design, user modeling and user acceptance studies
  • Multi-Media and virtual reality
  • Expert systems, knowledge based systems and intelligent agents
  • Decision support systems, data mining and knowledge discovery
  • System architectures, software engineering and database design
  • Enterprise modeling
  • Electronic commerce and marketing
  • Business engineering
  • Standardization issues
  • Statistics, optimization and simulation
  • Capacity and yield management
  • Reverse marketing
  • Management science
  • Computer supported marketing methods
  • Management / organizational / business and economic aspects
  • Quality control
  • Legal and social aspects of IT applications in travel and tourism
  • New intermediaries and dissintermediation
  • Dynamic networking and virtual enterprises

CONTRIBUTIONS

All contributions will have an explicit application focus, i.e., case studies and methodological/technical papers, which prove their practical applicability. Book and product reviews, a regular forum as well as panel discussions will be included. Special issues will feature thematic treatments in the ITT field.

To maintain a high standard, Information Technology & Tourism is a refereed journal. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged, and the reviewing process will also be done electronically. Because of the nature of the subject, the refereeing process will be kept very short. It is essential that all articles and reports appearing in ITT are dealing with and reporting on the very latest developments in IT and tourism.

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Research Note

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Study

Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process


 


Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (ISSN: 1098-3058) is hosted at MODUL University Vienna and published by Cognizant.