Purpose: The rapid digital transformation (DX) that airlines experienced during the past decade has been proven to be the driving force of significant benefits for the airlines when it comes to cost reduction, branding and revenue opportunities when passengers purchase tickets and ancillaries...

With the increasingly integration of information and communications technology and tourism industry, the International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism (IFITT) was founded on the request of researchers. The annual ENTER conference held by IFITT discusses the...

Tourism growth relies on information; thus, the proliferation of information and communication technology has brought strategic opportunities and challenges to tourism. Online tourism is an economic phenomenon produced by the application of information and communication technology to tourism on the ...

Objective: To assess the risks of public health emergencies, both the indigenous ones and the imported ones, which might occur in the mainland of China in January 2020. Methods: An internet based expert counsel was conducted to analyze the surveillance data of public health emergencies and priority ...

Mosquitoes breed by feeding on the blood of vertebrates to obtain the nutrients necessary to oviposition. In the process of feeding on human blood, mosquitoes can transmit a variety of serious human diseases and pose a great risk to human health. With the rapid development of globalization and the...

In recent years, the Palace Museum in Beijing, China, has transformed its traditional image as a cornerstone of cultural heritage into one that is trendy, fashionable, and even cute. As a result, the institution has gained large followings on social media platforms and increasingly been able to...

The emergence of ICT enables consumers to search for destinations worldwide more easily, making it necessary to constantly improve the web presence and social media used by destinations. This study firstly aims to benchmark global destinations with regards to their level of implementation of...

Improving transportation accessibility to facilitate inbound tourism between cities is an important way of extending the duration of inbound travelers' visits within China and, consequently, increasing tourism revenues from the entry of foreign visitors. This study compared the aviation and railway ...

Social media has become one of the "mega trends" that has significantly impacted the tourism system in digital-era. Consequently, the role and use of social media in tourist decision making and in tourism operations and management have been widely discussed in tourism and hospitality research. From ...

With the development of Internet technology, tourists' traveling experiences sharing on social media, which is also called tourist-generated content (TGC), has gradually become an important part of information sharing. According to previous research, the tourist-generated content has the following...