Paper Info
Title
Construction and Use of a ‘Green Growth’ Tourism Decision Support System: A Multi-Model Approach
Abstract
For design, development, implementation and use of an information system (IS) to constitute a valid research activity, the system should support the solution of a non-trivial and important problem and it should be original, drawing on existing theories and knowledge. The design of one such system is described in this paper: specifically, a decision support system (DSS) designed to support the development of ` Green Growth' (GG) strategies for Travelism (Travel & Tourism) destinations. A sound GG strategy is important: first, because tourism is a major contributor to the global economy-particularly for developing and island states; second because it represents some 5% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and these are increasing faster than the global norm; and third because the environment is an essential element of destination attractiveness. Thus, the problem domain is certainly non-trivial and important. It is further argued that the design of the DSS artefact described is original and novel in the sense that: i) it supports the entire GG strategy development process (which is actually cyclical); ii) it allows for the sharing of data, functionality and knowledge between different DSS applications and different strategy development exercises in a seamless, integrated manner; and iii) it will be deployed in a global community based program in 2016. System design draws heavily on previous IS, information management and software engineering research; particularly with regard to use of abstraction and interfaces in support of component sharing and reuse.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3127/ajis.v20i0.1305
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
decision support systems,green growth strategies,tourism,travel,travelism,design science
Information system,Information management,Problem domain,Computer science,Decision support system,Systems design,Tourism,Operations research,Knowledge management,Design science,Green growth,Process management
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
20
1449-8618
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
G. Michael Mcgrath13410.82
Geoffrey H. Lipman200.68