ENTER 2019 – the 26th Annual International eTourism Conference

ENTER2019 features cutting-edge research and industry case studies on the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in travel and tourism. Organized by the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER2019 takes place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from January 30 to February 1, 2019. This Special Issue includes 24 short research papers presented at the conference.

• INTRODUCTION TO THE ENTER 2019 SPECIAL ISSUE OF eRTR by Juho Pesonen, Julia Neidhardt and  Cody Morris Paris
• SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THE IMPERIAL TOPIC: CASE OF ST. PETERSBURGby Aleksei Gorgadze, Valery Gordin and Natalia Belykova
• DAILY DEALS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION: A DATA ANALYTICS APPROACH by Luka Tomat, Luka Tomat, Miha Bratec, Katarzyna Minor and Marko Budler
• GAMIFICATION IN AIRBNB: BENEFITS AND RISKS by Marianna Sigala, Martina Toni, Maria Francesca Renzi, Laura Di Pietro and Roberta Guglielmetti Mugion
• EXAMINING ‘SPACE’ IN PEER-TO-PEER ACCOMMODATION SETTINGS by Anna Farmaki and Prokopis Christou
• IMPACTS OF P2P ACCOMMODATION: NEIGHBOURHOOD PERSPECTIVESby Anna Farmaki and Dimitrios Stergiou
• INFERENCES AND DECISION HEURISTICS IN PEER-TO-PEER ACCOMMODATION BOOKING by Yujia Chen, Shasha Liu, Iis Tussyadiah, Husna Zainal Abidin and Zara Zarezadeh
• THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLE: TOURIST PERCEPTIONS ON INTERACTIONS WITH PERSONALISED CONTENT by Katerina Volchek, Rob Law, Dimitrios Buhalis and Haiyan Song
• TRAVEL ROUTE RECOMMENDATION BY CONSIDERING USER TRANSITION PATTERNS by Junjie Sun, Chenyi Zhuang and Qiang Ma
• COMPARING TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING: THE CASE OF TOURISM TRACER IN TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA by Anne Hardy, Jagannath Aryal and Martha Wells
• UbiRS4TOURISM: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF POINT-OF-INTEREST RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS MADE EASY by Christos Mettouris and George A. Papadopoulos
• RESISTANCE TO THE ADOPTION OF ICTs IN INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS: INSIGHTS FROM CHINA AND THE UK by Elizabeth Ashcroft, Aarni Tuomi, Mingsheng Wang and David Solnet
• TOURIST TRANSITION MODEL AMONG SIGHTSEEING SPOTS BASED ON TRAJECTORY DATA by Takeshi Watabe, Hidekazu Kashara and Masaaki Iiyama
• #VANLIFE: MATERIALITY, MAKEOVERS AND MOBILITY AMONGST DIGITAL NOMADS by Ulrike Gretzel and Anne Hardy
• THE DEFINING FEATURES OF EMOTIONS IN ONLINE STORIES by Wen Zhang, Yeongbae Choe and Daniel R. Fesenmaier
• WORLD CITIES’ IMAGE IN TRIPADVISOR USERS’ REVIEW by Marek Nowacki
• A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF IMAGES IN ONLINE HOTEL REVIEWS by Florian J. Zach, Yufeng Ma and Edward Fox
• ASSESSING USER PERCEPTIONS OF TRUST AND SECURITY IN MANIPULATED VERSIONS OF LOW TRUST AND HIGH TRUSTS TOURISM WEBSITES by Jacqui Taylor, Sine McDougall, Gail Ollis and Philip Alford
• ANALYSING CULTURAL VALUES IN HERITAGE PROMOTION BY DMO WEBSITES: A METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL by Emanuele Mele and Lorenzo Cantoni
• INDONESIAN TOURISM AND BATIK: AN ONLINE MAP by Puspita Ayu Permatasari and Lorenzo Cantoni
• CO-CREATING VALUE IN DESTINATION MANAGEMENT LEVERING ON STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT by Mariapina Trunfio and Maria Della Lucia
• DIGITAL COLLABORATION: A SOLUTION FOR DESTINATIONS by Husna Zainal Abidin, Caroline Scarles and Christine Lundberg
• RESPOND MORE TO GOOD TARGETS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF MANAGERIAL RESPONSE STRATEGY IN ONLINE TRAVEL WEBSITES by Sai Liang and Hui Li
• TOURISTS’ ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACE SOCIAL CONTACT AND DESTINATION IMMERSION by Daisy Fan, Dimitrios Buhalis and Bingna Lin
• THE IMPACT OF ICT ON ACTORS INVOLVED IN SMART TOURISM DESTINATION SUPPLY CHAIN by Ante Mandić and Daniela Garbin Praničević