ENTER2011 Conference Venue
Congress und Messe Innsbruck GmbH
str. Rennweg 3
Innsbruck – Austria
ENTER2011@Innsbruck, the 18th ENTER eTourism Conference will bring together international experts in all aspects of Information and Communication Technologies in Travel and Tourism – the technologies which are changing the world of tourism and hospitality.
Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), in 2011 ENTER will be back again to the city of Innsbruck, Austria and will be hosted at Congress und Messe Innsbruck GmbH, str. Rennweg 3, Innsbruck (Austria) from 26th to 28th January 2011. ENTER2011@Innsbruck is promising a fantastic environment for serious debate and great social interaction.
ENTER 2011 offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism. The three tracks, namely Research, Destinations and Industry are designed in a way that enables maximum exchange of information and interaction.
At ENTER 2011 the theme is on interactions among information and communication technology use and development, as well as supplier and user information in the context of travel and tourism. Issues covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
| - Advanced distribution systems | - Consumer Inspiration through ICTs |
| - Crisis and eTourism | - Distribution strategies |
| - eLearning | - eStrategy and eBusiness models |
| - Electronic marketing | - Enogastronomic tourism |
| - ICT adoption, use, and value creation | - ICT-enabled partnerships and segmentation |
| - ICT and sustainability | - ICT for regional development |
| - Information search and retrieval | - Information interfaces and presentation |
| - Intelligent systems | - Legal and social aspects |
| - Mobile services | - Recommender systems |
| - Technology acceptance | - Travel search and metasearch |
| - Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 | - Website design and evaluation |
| ENTER CHAIRS | |
| Programme Chair | Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni (Università della Svizzera italiana) |
| IFITT Chair | Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis (Bournemouth University) |
| IFITT Administrator | Margret Cordesmeyer (Bournemouth University) |
| Research Track | |
| Chair | Prof. Rob Law (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| Co-chair | Prof. Matthias Fuchs (Mid Sweden University) |
| Co-chair | Prof. Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) |
| Applied Track | |
| Destination Chair | Dr. Robert Govers (Consortium University of Leuven) |
| Industry Chair | Dr. Rodolfo Baggio (Bocconi University) |
| PhD Workshop (Pre ENTER) | |
| Chair | Prof. Berendien Lubbe (Pretoria University) |
| Co-chair | Dr. Davide Bolchini (Indiana University) |
| Co-chair | Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu (University of Delaware) |
