I am happy to announce, that we finalized the programme for the ISCONTOUR 2016. The ISCONTOUR takes place on the 23rd and 24th of May at the IMC in Krems. Get more information and register at: http://www.tourism-student-conference.com/
Digital Trends in Tourism 2016
The Travel Industry Club yesterday invited to a social networking event in the Goldener Hirsch. I was invited to give the keynote on “digital trends in tourism 2016”. Sher Khan from Google than talked about “Google Hotel Ads”. A podium discussion concluded this wonderful event. More information and the presentations can be found here.
Conference on VR and AR in Tourism – Dublin
As I mentioned earlier, we will be focusing on the Virtual Reality Topic within the next few months. Now Timothy Jung sent out this Call for Paper for a Conference in Dublin. I hope this is of interest for you…..
Call for Papers Perspectives on Business Realities of AR and VR Dublin 27 April 2016 Co-Hosts: School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology Creative AR Hub, Department of Food and Tourism Management, Manchester Metropolitan University Cutting-edge technologies are changing the business landscape and new innovations provide opportunities for businesses and destinations to offer unique services to their customers ranging from the overlay of digital content into users direct environment, gamifications, 3D printing etc. The Perspectives on Business Realities of AR and VR conference organisers seek original, high-quality papers in all areas related to augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality and 3D user interfaces. All paper submissions must be in English and submitted as a word file. There are no strict formatting requirements however, APA referencing needs to be applied. The document file should not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. A separate cover sheet (work title, name, institution and contact details) should be submitted to ensure a double-blind review process. Selected papers will be published in the on-line journal (Journal of Augmented and Virtual Reality: Special Issue-Perspectives on Business Realities of AR and VR)
Academic conference chair: Dr. Timothy Jung (Manchester Metropolitan University) t.jung@mmu.ac.uk
Feel the Pulse of Online Distribution
Online Travel Distribution Summit -11th of April – Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Tourism is considered to be one of the largest industries worldwide and has seen a dramatic change since the emergence of the internet. According to a survey undertaken by TripAdvisor in October 2015, 65% of users (across generations) book their accommodations online. Travel intermediaries have seen disintermediation, followed by reintermediation and new market players have entered the “agora”. Huge mergers & acquisitions are happening on a daily basis and the interconnections are hardly comprehensible.
The aim of the Online Travel Distribution Summit is to bring light into this highly complex and fast changing topic, by inviting industry experts for an intensive panel discussion.
Let´s learn from leading professionals and hear which insights they share with us! For more information check out our Website: Online Travel Distribution Summit
Klick Programme to enlarge….
How to use gamification to design memorable travel experiences
We did a nice little summary about our book “Gamification in Tourism: Designing memorable experiences“, which was just published on Tnooz.com.
There we present our Memorable Experience Design (MED) Framework and provide some of the techniques outlined in the framework. We are proud, that Tnooz published our analysis!
ENTER 2016 – Bilbao / Spain
We just had our presentations at the ENTER conference 2016 in Bilbao. ENTER is an annual conference on ICTs in Tourism, organized by IFITT – the world leading academic community in this field. More than 300 delegates participated this year and we made it with two papers to the podium.
Both presentations raised big interest within the audience. Congratulations to my four master students.
Lenka presented our paper on: Tracking Tourist Spatial-Temporal Behavior in Urban Places. A Methodological Overview and GPS Case Study.
Johanna, Miriam and Martina presented our paper entitled: Online Hotel Reviews Rating Symbols or Text Text or Rating Symbols Thats the question.
Ladies – well done. Great success & lots of fun!
How to use Virtual Reality in Tourism
Virtual Reality currently seems to reach the plateau of productivity (Gartner Hype Cycle) and this technology could realy alter the entire tourism industry. We, at the department of Innovation and Management in Tourism, will focus on this technology and it´s challenges for the industry within the next months. A number of projects, Bachelor- and Master-Theses will complement our research activities. Please check out the article Paul Bulencea wrote on our Gamification-in-Tourism Blog on “How to use Virtual Reality in Tourism“.
Roman Egger testing the Oculus Rift….
Gamification in Tourism
Paul Bulencea and I recently published a book entitled “Gamification in Tourism: Designing memorable experiences”. Gamification currently sees a hype – and therefore we were asked for an interwiew for the ÖW-Bulletin
See the full article here (p.26/27): Bulletin0116
Research Project Presentation – 3rd Semester Master
The presentations will take place on the 29th of February from 08:15-11:30 2016 in HS110
Experience Salzburg
On January 28th our 5th semester imte bachelor students are going to present their project work with Mr. Grabs-Schrempf. Results are so impressive, if you have time, you are welcome to attend their final presentations.
