Presentation done by Francesco Ricci and Hannes Werthner, during "Keynotes: Big data and human capital", of the ENTER2015 eTourism conference.

1. Information Technology and
Tourism Journal
Research Manifesto
Francesco Ricci & Hannes
Werthner
Lugano, February 5th 2015

2. Journal of Information Technology &
Tourism
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3. JITT Mission
 The first scientific interdisciplinary journal
focusing on the nature and role of information
technology within the context of tourism, travel
and hospitality
 To host research results coming from computer
science, information systems and social sciences
 Aims primarily to contribute to the process of
theory building, and hence to the advancement
of research and scholarship in this growing field
 As an interdisciplinary journal, it supports
industry-oriented research as well as
academic theory focused research.
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4. Manifesto
 Future research issues in IT and tourism
 A result of the JITT workshop in June 2014, Vienna
 Identify and structure / frame challenges
 Provide guidelines on strategic research issues for the
research community
 But also conceived as a basis document for interaction
with industry and policy makers (relevance issue)
 We have focused on the topics that should be addressed
– in a next step we will consider related research
methods (a next workshop, JITT and IFITT)
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5. Layered Tourism Ecosystem
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© M. Zanker
Individual
Group/ social
Corporation
Network/ industry
Government/ policy

6. Panelists
 Daniel Fesenmaier (University of
Florida)
 Ulrike Gretzel (University of
Queensland, Australia)
 Fabio Cannavale (Bravofly)
 Eduardo Santander (European Travel
Commission)
Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,
Moderator)
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