ENTER2013 Call for Papers

The Conference

Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER 2013 offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism. While celebrating its 20th anniversary, ENTER 2013 will focus on main trends and emerging technologies which are likely to influence eTourism in the next twenty years. Issues to be covered at the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Advanced Distribution Systems
• Electronic Marketing
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Technology Acceptance
• Consumer Inspiration through ICTS
• Eno-Gastronomic Tourism
• Information Interfaces and Presentation
• Travel Search and Meta-Search
• Crisis and e-Tourism
• ICT Adoption, Use, and Value Creation
• Intelligent Systems
• Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
• Distribution Strategies
• ICT-enabled Partnerships and Segmentation
• Legal and Social Aspects
• Website Design and Evaluation
• E-Learning
• ICT and Sustainability
• Mobile Services
• Context-Aware Systems
• E-strategy and e-Business models
• ICT for Development
• Recommender Systems
• Location based services

Location

IFITT invites regular and new participants to ENTER 2013, which will be held in Innsbruck, Austria. Right in the heart of Europe, Innsbruck is very conveniently located, and easily accessible by plane, train and car. In addition to experience the latest technological development and innovations in tourism, ENTER participants would be able to appreciate the richness of cultural heritage in the capital of Tyrol.

Call for Papers

Research papers are invited across the widest spectrum of Information and Communication Technologies in Travel and Tourism. All submissions will be rigorously evaluated for novelty, significance, and soundness. Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations.

A) Full Papers

Full papers should be innovative, so to advance the knowledge base of related fields. These papers present major contributions to the field and should be up to 12 pages in length. The conference proceedings (to be published by Springer, Wien - New York) will include all accepted full papers. An award for the best full paper will be presented during the conference.

B) Research Notes

Research notes of up to 5 pages are invited. These papers represent new ideas not developed enough at the scale of a full paper, findings that restate known research, descriptions of prototypes, or research that is limited in scope. All research notes will be published by the e-journal eRTR (e-Review of Tourism Research) at ertr.tamu.edu/ (Editor of eRTR: Ulrike Gretzel, University of Wollongong)

C) Organized Sessions

Proposals for organizing technical or other research-oriented sessions are invited. Proposals will include details of potential participants, topics, and presenters. Session Chairs are expected to attend ENTER 2013, set the order of presentations, and chair their session/s. Deadline for session chairs to submit their proposals to Research Track Chair is August 31, 2012.

Submission

Please refer to the ‘Author Advice’ document as a template guide for the preparation of the final submission manuscripts. 

Papers must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=enter2013. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by experienced researchers who are members of the scientific review committee. Final acceptance will depend on whether the author(s) can adequately address review comments to the satisfaction of the reviewers. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by the deadline and must register for the conference by November 16, 2012 in order to have their papers included in the Conference Proceedings / eRTR. 

PhD Workshop

ENTER 2013 will also continue its PhD Workshop one day prior to the main Conference. Further details will be available on the conference Website soon. PhD Workshop Chairs:

Rob Law (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) hmroblaw@polyu.edu.hk
Matthias Fuch (ETOUR Mid-Sweden University) Matthias.Fuchs@miun.se
Carlos Lamsfus (CICtourGUNE) CarlosLamsfus@tourgune.org
Barbara Neuhofer bneuhofer@bournemouth.ac.uk

Time Schedule 

Submission closes: September 1, 2012 

DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR RESEARCH PAPERS: September 9, 2012

Final acceptance: October 31, 2012
Registration Deadline: November 16, 2012
Conference: January 22-25, 2013

ENTER2013 Research Track Chairs

Research Track Chair: Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Lugano), Switzerland (lorenzo.cantoni@usi.ch)

Co-chair: Zheng Xiang, University of North Texas, USA

ENTER2013 Research Programme Review Committee