Innovation and Knowledge in the Network Society
The Olympics 2008 have finished and now it will be the turn for London 2012. I’m convinced that the Olympics in the UK will be very succesful and that Europe will support these games as European games. Otherwise it will be very hard to reach the high level achieved by the chinese organizers. These have [...]
Last week I got through the EDGE newsletter to know about the talk given by Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 Expo held in San Francisco (CA) last April 2008. In his talk titled: GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS Clay explains what he believes is the ooportunity wwe have to take advantage of [...]
It often appears in some posts or messages on the net claiming about how we are assuming the wrong use of some terminology with much tolerance while scientist and academics have difficulty to spread out and convince to the public that the fair use of terminology is essential to build knowledge.
Social networks are now very [...]
With contributions from leading global experts both from the industry and academia, each case follows a rigid structure with features such as bulleted summaries and review questions, as well as each section having its own thorough introduction and conclusion written by the editors highlighting the key issues and theories. Cases covered include: Intercontinental Hotel Group and online intermediaries, Expedia.de, Amadeus, VisitBritain, Enterprise Rent-a-car, Lufthansa systems and many more.
Divided into the following sections, the case studies are used to illustrate the theory and issues to finally present a big picture of innovative and successful ICT usage in the tourism sector:
# Hospitality
# Intermediaries
# Destinations
# Transportation
# IT-Systems in Tourism
# Mobile Systems and Services