Open Tourism

- Theoretical Fundamentals and Concepts

- Case Studies - Information Level

- Creation Level

- Provision Level

- Epilogue

Professor Roman Egger attended the Tourism- and Hospitality Management School in Klessheim from 1989 until 1994. He graduated in Communications Sciences and gained his Doctorate from the University of Salzburg, where he specialized in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism. He worked at the Tourism Board of Salzburg as a marketer. Roman is Lecturer in eTourism at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and key researcher at the department of Innovation and Management in Tourism. Roman advises a number of national and international projects in the fields of Information Technologies in Tourism and counsels eTourism-development activities in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Egypt. He has written and co-edited nine books, published a number of articles in Books and Journals and is co-editor of the scientific Journal "Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft". He is a Member of the International Federation of Information Technology for Travel and Tourism (IFITT), ÖGAF and DGT and AIEST.

Igor Gula attended the Tourism management school in Vienna XXI between 2000 and 2005. He is a graduate of a Bachelor's degree program in tourism business studies of the Management Center Innsbruck and of a Master's degree program in innovation and management in tourism of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. During his studies, Igor was working in different 5- and 4-star hotels in Styria, Switzerland, France and Tirol. He completed his internship for the Bachelor's degree as Business Information Manager Assistant in the department of Marketing New Media at the headquarters of the Casinos Austria in Vienna. Igor wrote his Bachelor thesis about the trends of the modern ICTs and their impacts on tourism, focusing on Dynamic Packaging, mTourism and Social Semantic Web. For his Master thesis he analysed the aspects of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in tourism and conducted a web-based ideas competition in cooperation with the Slovak Tourist Board.

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"This book is easy to read and follow, enriched by a large number of industrial examples and best practices. ... this book can be also used as a reference by undergraduate students, with interests in the fields of business management, tourism, or hotel. The value of this book mainly stands out with regard to its holistic overview and comprehensiveness in the inclusion of various examples and best practices for the tourism industry." (Simon Lei, Information Technology & Tourism, Vol. 17, 2017)