What could be a better place to see the latest eTourism trends (information and communication technologies in tourism) than annual ENTER-conference, organized by the International Federation of IT in Travel & Tourism. At ENTER, academics and practitioners come together to look at and discuss innovative topics in eTourism. Based on what I saw and heard…
The 26th ENTER eTourism Conference, ENTER2019, will be organized by IFITT January 30 – February 1, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Now you might be asking yourself why you should attend this conference next year. As the research track chair of the conference, at least five reasons come up to my mind: 1. Great tourism conference…
Many small- and medium-sized enterprises post just basic pictures, link and videos to their social media channels. Even though there are dozens of excellent and free tools to improve how social media marketing is conducted, not many businesses use these. Using these tools will allow businesses to provide more engaging and visually more attractive content. The…
One of the best places to understand the state of digitalization in tourism is the annual ENTER conference. It provides a unique overview of what people from all over the world are doing in the field of eTourism, what are the current issues and latest developments. This year, ENTER2018 was organized in Jönköping, Sweden. The…
There are some extremely useful online business tools, services, and applications for all tourism businesses. This article is built especially for tourism businesses in Western countries, in other countries some practices and tools could be different. I have gathered various tools together that could be useful especially for tourism and hospitality businesses and destinations. Online forums…
There is an ongoing discussion in the Finnish tourism industry about our digital tourism capabilities. We are looking up to Iceland and how they are promoting and selling their tourism services and products on the Internet. It seems that we think that technology and online travel packages will be the key to grow tourism numbers…
It is September already. It means that summer holidays, as well as the academic year 2016-2017, are over and a new academic year is starting. I still continue as the head of e-tourism research at the University of Eastern Finland Business School, Centre for Tourism Studies. This is also a good time to reflect what has…
…simple and intuitive. How you do your travel bookings is about to change. I had the pleasure to attend #smtnetwork (http://smtnetwork.fi/) event today in Vantaa. Amber Stauffer presented Neo travel management system from KDS and the system is so simple, it makes travel planning seem almost pleasurable. Just add where your journey starts, where you…