Title | ||
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Information Convergence in the Long Tail: The Case of Tourism Destination Information |
Abstract | ||
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Tourism information on the Internet is spreading through a wide range of different websites. In addition to the official destination
or attraction websites, many are unofficial websites such as blogs, wiki, social networks, which offer destination information.
Hence official websites, being destination or attraction sites, are challenged by unofficial ones. Actually these two different
types of websites often diffuse similar content in terms of topics and subjects but in different forms. This study explores
the information market around a given tourism destination and investigates the characteristics and quality of the available
websites. It underlines the importance of consumer generated content and its strategic role for the promotion. Finally, several
ways of exploiting the official and unofficial contents are explored and the topic of the possible information convergence,
thanks to folksonomies, is discussed.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1007/978-3-211-93971-0_32 | ENTER |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
user generated content,destination systems,web 2.0,information convergence,long tail,social network | User-generated content,Social network,Advertising,Computer science,Tourism,Web 2.0,Attraction,Long tail,Information market,Marketing,The Internet | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
7 | 0.61 | 22 |
Authors | ||
2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Alessandro Inversini | 1 | 52 | 10.28 |
Dimitrios Buhalis | 2 | 321 | 43.63 |