The Information and Communication Technology and the Tourism Sector

Guido Candela and Paolo Figini
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Guido Candela: University of Bologna

Chapter Chapter 12 in The Economics of Tourism Destinations, 2012, pp 399-424 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As every other aspect of everyday life and socioeconomic relationships, also tourism is crossed, and sometimes deeply affected, by the evolution of a complex system of phenomena that in the common language can be defined as Internet Revolution, New Economy, Information Technology (IT), Information and Communication Technology (ICT), etc. Without entering in specific topics pertaining to the Economics of Information or to the Science & Technology debate, in this chapter we will simply try to understand if and how the economic problem and rationale of tourism firms, tourists, and destinations are affected by what certainly is a momentous change in the organization of our society:

Keywords: Reservation Price; Price Discrimination; Network Externality; Travel Agency; Online Auction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20874-4_12

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