ENTER Conference 2010

Conference

Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER 2010 offers a unique forum for attendees from academics, industry and government to present and debate state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communications technologies to travel and tourism. Issues to be covered at the conference include a wide range of cutting-edge challenges and the following examples give a flavor of this:

Customer centricity, eBranding and brand integrity, Cloud computing, ICT for regional development, Mobile solutions, Consumer inspiration through, ICTs, eTourism clusters, ICT-enabled partnerships, Web analytics, Location Based Services, Web 3.0 & Travel 3.0, Destination web sites & Clusters, Geographical Mash ups, Web 2.0-Travel 2.0 and Social networking, Usability & web design, Travel Search & Metasearch, Online advertising, Distribution Challenges, Smart ICT investments, Multimedia convergence, Revenue Management, Disruptive technologies, Reengineering tourism, Advanced distribution systems, Crisis and eTourism, Advanced destination portals, eLearning for Tourism, Interoperability & Interconnectivity, Online marketing, Cultural heritage & ICT, Distribution strategy, ICT for regional development, Recommender systems, Accessible eTourism design, ICT & sustainability, ICT-enabled segmentation

LOCATION

In 2010, ENTER will take place in Lugano, Switzerland, a city centrally located in Europe and easily accessible for international participants through the Milano airports and the extended Swiss Railway network. Lugano, the largest town in the holiday region of Ticino, is not only Switzerland's third most important financial centre and a conference, banking and business centre, but also a town of parks and flowers, villas and historic buildings. With Mediterranean flair and spectacular mountain views, Lugano offers all the advantages of a world-class city, combined with the cachet of a small town.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited across a wide spectrum of Information and Communications Technologies applied to the travel and tourism sectors.

A) Full Papers

Full papers present major contributions to the field and should be up to 12 pages in length. Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory/issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial/industry/social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations. The conference proceedings (published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York) will include all accepted full papers.

An award for the best full paper will also be presented during the conference.

B) Short Papers

Short papers of up to 5 pages are invited. These papers represent new ideas not developed enough to warrant a full paper, findings that restate known research, descriptions of prototypes, or research that is limited in scope. All short papers will be published on an ISBN-referenced CD.

Submission

Please refer to the ";Author Advice"; document as a style guide for standards to follow in the preparation of manuscripts. Papers must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform (http://www.etourism-austria.at/enter). All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by the members of the scientific review committee. Final acceptance depends on whether the author(s) can adequately address review comments to the satisfaction of the reviewers. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by the deadline and must register for the conference by November 15, 2009 in order to have their paper included in the Conference Proceedings/the CD.

IFITT will also continue its series of Ph.D. workshops immediately prior to the conference.

Further details will be available on the conference Website soon.

TIME SCHEDULE

Submission opens                15th June 2009

Submission closes               13th September 2009

Initial feedback                      28th September 2009

Submit final revised paper   18th October 2009

Final acceptance                  25th October 2009

Registration               15th November 2009

Conference                10th - 12th February 2010

ENTER 2010 RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS

Research Track Chair: Ulrike Gretzel, Texas A&M University, USA

(ugretzel@tamu.edu )

Co-chair: Rob Law, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Co-chair: Matthias Fuchs, Mid Sweden University, Sweden