eTourism for socio-economic development

Inversini, A. and Rega, I. (2016) eTourism for socio-economic development. Symphonya: Emerging Issues in Management, 1. pp. 75-82. ISSN 1593-0319 doi: 10.4468/2016.1.07inversini.rega

Abstract/Summary

Tourism has often been described as an economic driving force that contributes to rural and emerging economies development. However, when it comes to the social aspect of development the nature of this contribution is still debated by academics. Information and Communication Technologies can help enhancing the socio-economic contribution of tourism by fostering community-based tourism independent marketing and sales dis-intermediation. eT4D can be defined as the independent use of technologies by micro and small community based tourism firms to market and sell their products and services thus fostering local socio-economic development.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/75359
Identification Number/DOI	10.4468/2016.1.07inversini.rega
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Marketing and Reputation
Publisher	University of Milan-Bicocca
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