Background. Health-care professionals can help travelers by providing accurate pre-travel counseling for mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever. Governments and international organizations will benefit from knowledge survey among health professionals in this...

The tourism industry now allows the booking of rooms and itineraries via the internet; online bookings have become very important for both domestic and international businesses, leading to the emergence of online booking companies. This study has two research objectives: to identify the factors and ...

The diffusion of disrupting innovations has generated significant market changes, modifying the dominant logic and affecting the strategic positioning of companies in tourism. The aim of this special issue is (a) to provide a platform for the dissemination of findings from studies that combine...

With the rapid development of wireless and information technology, social media marketing has become a critical issue for travel agencies. However, there are few studies in the past travel and tourism literature that have explored success decision-making in the context of social media adoption....

Purpose: This study aims to incorporate innovative technology (i.e. blockchain) into the design of an online travel agency (B-OTA). The authors accelerated the design of the prototype system through expert interviews to understand the convenience of the blockchain travel and accommodation platform...

To effectively use of mobile technologies, this study develops a multifaceted framework to analyze critical success factors and determine an optimal solution for mobile technology adoption by using hybrid multiple criteria decision-making methods. The results show that the most important and common ...

This paper examines the pre-purchase behaviour of travellers toward airline e-tickets in the Taiwanese travel market and explores the validity of the new internet context. Data were obtained from a survey conducted with 206 travellers at the waiting lounge of Taipei's CKS international airport....

Purpose: Many tourism-related industries, such as hotels, use social media as a marketing tool for promotion and distribution. This paper aims to use a model that explores the impact of social media platform image (SMPI) on customers' visit intention (VI) in a hotel context, using hotel image (HI), ...

Aims: This study analyzes the feasibility of tourism business model created by an integrated telecom operator in Taiwan. This research analyze its model design logic at a strategic level and design elements of content at an operational level, hoping to help this case company analyzing their current ...

Through advanced mobile technologies, mobile users can access updated information and adjust plans during travel accordingly. Such mobile services can integrate with social networking services (SNS) to share and access information on the go. Not much research exists on mobile social commerce,...