ICT capacities in creating sustainable urban tourism and its effects on resident quality of life

Author

Shafiee, Masih Mohammad ; Shams, Haymen ; Yahai, Mohamad Reza ; Golchin, Hamid ; Shafiee, Masih Mohammad

Author_Institution

Marketing Manage., Univ. of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

fYear

2013

fDate

17-18 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

Developments in new technologies like internet provide new solutions for enriching a sustainable tourism in marketing and offering tourism services. Sustainable urban tourism with emphasis on positive relation between environment, human and community cause in increasing long term effect on resident quality of life. Some of these effects are: Increasing incomes, recreation of service facilities, improving urban decoration with cultural symbols, increasing job opportunities and so on. So in this paper we try to study and evaluate some major capacities of ICT in tourism service and its impact on resident quality of life.

Keywords

cultural aspects; marketing data processing; social aspects of automation; sustainable development; travel industry; ICT capacities; Internet; cultural symbols; increase incomes; increase job opportunities; resident quality-of-life; service facilities recreation; sustainable urban tourism; tourism service marketing; urban decoration improvement; Cultural differences; Economics; Global communication; Industries; Internet; Sustainable development; Information and communications technology; Sustainable urban tourism; resident quality of life;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Commerce in Developing Countries: With Focus on e-Security (ECDC), 2013 7th Intenational Conference on

Conference_Location

Kish Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0394-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECDC.2013.6556745

Filename

6556745