[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]
=======================================================================
International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism announces:
ENTER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
16th International Conference on IT and Travel & Tourism
IFITT's Global Travel & Tourism Technology and eBusiness Forum
January 28th - 30th, 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands
CONFERENCE
Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism, ENTER 2009 offers a unique forum for academics, industry and government to present and debate state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism. In 2009, ENTER will move on to the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, taking place in the well-known RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre. Amsterdam is centrally located in Europe, easily accessible for international participants, and from its canals to famous historical sights one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in Europe.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited across a wide spectrum of Information and Communication Technologies applied to the travel and tourism sectors. Applied industry research is particularly welcomed. The conference proceedings (published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York) will include the full text of all accepted research papers. An award for the best research paper will also be presented during the conference.
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. Please refer to the 'Author Advice' document as a style guide for standards to follow in the preparation of manuscripts.
Submission is in the form of full papers only, which must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform (http://www.etourism-austria.at/enter) by September 5th 2008. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed on a rolling basis by the review committee. Authors should receive initial feedback by September 26th 2008 at the latest. Final acceptance depends on the authors' response to adequately address reviewers' comments. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by October 10th 2008 and must register for the conference by November 17th 2008 in order to have their work included in the Conference Proceedings.
IFITT will also continue its series of Ph.D. workshops immediately prior to the conference. Further details will be available on www.ifitt.org soon.
TIME SCHEDULE
Submit full paper 5th September 2008
Initial feedback 26th September 2008
Submit final revised paper 10th October 2008
Final acceptance 24th October 2008
Registration by 17th November 2008
Conference 28th - 30th January 2009
ENTER 2009 RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS
Research Track Chair: Wolfram Höpken, eTourism Competence Center Austria ([log in to unmask])
Co-chair: Ulrike Gretzel, Texas A & M University, USA
Co-chair: Rob Law, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
ENTER 2009 RESEARCH PROGRAMME REVIEW COMMITTEE*
ALFORD Philip, University of Bedfordshire, UK
BAGGIO Rodolfo, Bocconi University, Italy
BEDARD Francois, UQAM, Canada
BELDONA Srikanth, University of Delaware, USA
BIEGER Thomas, St. Gallen University, Switzerland
BONN Mark, Florida State University, USA
BÖSZÖRMENYI Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, Austria
BUHALIS Dimitrios, Bournemouth University, UK
CHOI Sunmee, Yonsei University, Korea
CHRISTOU Evangelos, University of the Aegean, Greece
COBANOGLU Cihan, University of Delaware, USA
CONNOLLY Dan, University of Denver, USA
DANIELE Roberto, Oxford Brookes University, UK
EGGER Roman, Salzburg Univesity of Applied Sciences, Austria
FESENMAIER Daniel, Temple University, USA
FREW Andrew, Queen Margaret University College, UK
FUCHS Matthias, Mid-University, Sweden
GO Frank, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands
GOVERS Robert, University of Leuven, Belgium
HAM Sunny, University of Kentucky, USA
HITZ Martin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
HOFACKER, Charles, Florida State University, USA
HU Clark, Temple University, USA
KLEIN Stefan, University of Münster, Germany
LUBBE, Berendien, Pretoria University, South Africa
MAGLOGIANNIS Ilias, University of the Aegean, Greece
MARCUSSEN Carl, Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Denmark
MATZLER Kurt, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
McGRATH Michael, Victoria University, Australia
MICH, Luisa, University of Trento, Italy
MILLS Juline, Purdue University, USA
MILNE Simon, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
MINGHETTI Valeria, CISET-Ca' Foscari University, Italy
MISTILIS Nina, University of New South Wales, Australia
MURPHY Hilary, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland
MURPHY Jamie, University of Western Australia
O'CONNOR Peter, ESSEC Business School, France
OHUCHI Azuma, Hokkaido University, Japan
PECHLANER, Harald, European Academy of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
PETTI Claudio, S.S. ISUFI - University of Salento, Italy
RICCI Francesco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
SCHARL Arno, MODUL University, Austria
SCHEGG Roland, University of Applied Sciences Valais, Switzerland
SCHERTLER Walter, University of Trier, Germany
SHELDON Pauline, University of Hawaii, USA
SIGALA Marianna, University of the Aegean, Greece
STEINER Thomas, Swiss School of Tourism, Switzerland
STOCK Oliviero, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
TJOSTHEIM Ingvar, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
TUSCH Roland, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
VAN DER PIJL John, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
VAN HOOF Hubert, Penn State University, USA
WERTHNER Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
WÖBER, Karl, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
XIANG Zheng (Phil), University of Northern Texas, USA
ZANKER Markus, University Klagenfurt, Austria
ZINS Andreas, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
*Additional researchers will be invited to join the programme committee.
______________________________________
Wolfram Höpken
Director ECCA - Etourism Competence Center Austria
Technikerstr. 21a
6020 Innsbruck
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
www.etourism-austria.at <http://www.etourism-austria.at/>
---------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, send an empty email to
mailto:[log in to unmask]
For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv
---------------------------------------------------------------
|