The continuous growth to information access and the discovery of other realities, potentiated by the proliferation of media in general and the Internet in particular are two of the major mechanisms responsible for changes in consumption patterns. These evidences gave rise to this research project...

As cities become increasingly complex, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) bring smartness into organisations and communities, contributing to a more competitive tourism destination, i.e., smart tourism destinations. Enhanced information access coupled with a new kind of tourists avid ...

Social media nowadays makes part of thousands of people's lives around the world, being it a powerful, influential and essential way to promote tourism at a low cost. However, the preference for a particular social network may differ according to the characteristics of the tourists, for example:...

The tools based on digital media have become indispensable in tourism promotion and in this scenario where competitiveness is a must, the Web and social networks are the new spaces for competition between destinations. This paper discusses the role of digital media, especially social networks, in...

This paper analyses the use of the main e-tourism platforms by European tourists. A computer-aided Web interview (CAWI) was used to conduct the research in 19 European countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia,...

This study aims to identify and characterize behavioural patterns displayed by tourists on social media platforms during and after their holiday, in particular the motivations for tourists to share their experience online. To explore this, following a theoretical contextualization primary data was...

This special issue comprises eight articles in the sub-domains of new market trends and digital marketing in tourism. Most of them cover different tourism global contexts to contribute to a standardized and universal body of knowledge; others combining geographical and sociological methods...

At present the application of information and communications technologies (ICT) to the marketing of tourism products has been a major change in hotel marketing. In particular, the use of these tools by the users is having a strong effect in decision-making about the choice of tourist destinations...

Content generated by tourists, travellers, professional travel bloggers and travel journalists who post, comment and share information on social media channels is arguably the greatest digital challenge of destination branding today. The tourist-/traveller-generated content is likely to generate...

Digital corporations are creating new paths of business driven by consumers empowered by social media. Understanding the role that each feature drawn from online platforms has on price fluctuation is vital for leveraging decision-making. In this study, 5,603 simulations of online reservations from...