• DocumentCode
    2010683
  • Title

    Cloud Services Aided E-Tourism: In the Case of Low-Cost Airlines for Backpacking

  • Author

    Hung, Jason C. ; Rui Zhou ; Jun Hu ; Huaming Chen ; Qingguo Zhou ; Ji Qi ; Lei Yang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Manage., Overseas Chinese Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    15-18 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    468
  • Lastpage
    473
  • Abstract
    The emergence of Cloud Services and Mobile Internet has influenced the society a lot, including the tourism industry. This paper proposes a design of backpacking service, not only aimed at the travelling routines, but also focus on the low-cost airlines. This kind of service aids backpackers with an effective travelling and satisfy the price requirement. With this low-cost airlines system, the backpackers can experience real e-Tourism and enjoy a better travel aided by the real-time information. According to the basic principles of low-cost airlines, this paper provides the backpackers with a definitely efficient way to check out a suitable flight itinerary under an acceptable price.
  • Keywords
    cloud computing; mobile computing; travel industry; backpacking service; cloud services; low-cost airlines; mobile Internet; price requirement; real e-tourism; tourism industry; Cities and towns; Cloud computing; Industries; Mobile communication; Real-time systems; Transportation; Backpacking; Cloud Services; Mobile Internet; e-Tourism;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • ISSN
    1521-9097
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPADS.2013.85
  • Filename
    6808222