1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOURISM AND TECHNOLOGY,2011, Banking Industry Involvement and Key focus Next Generation Tourism &Technology Solutions

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOURISM AND TECHNOLOGY,2011, Banking Industry Involvement and Key focus Next Generation Tourism &Technology Solutions At Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

Key Focus on Next Generation Tourism & Technology Solutions

The India’s premier institute IIT Delhi’s main objectives of organizing this Tourism and Technology Meet are:

Development & adaptation of appropriate technologies in the Tourism Sector.
Creating awareness towards the advance developments in the technology sector of the Tourism Industry.
To make awareness for the policy makers to get first hand experience of advance developments in the technology towards the tourism industry.
Evolving strategic technology management to integrate the Tourism, Banking & Insurance sectors.
Comprehensive review of the technology platforms available for the Tourism sector in relation to Banking & Insurance sectors.
To invite the Banking & Insurance sectors to incorporate their technologies & infrastructure for further strengthening of the Tourism sector.

CONFERENCE KEY CONCEPTS (Tentative)

KEY PLENARY SESSIONS

(a) Strategic Technology Management

Sector Wise: Keynote on Technologies and Strategies
* Tourism Industry
* Aviation Industry
* Hotel Industry
* Travel Industry
* Banking Industry
* Insurance Industry

(b) Advanced Technology Developments – A Concept for Policy Makers

(1) Comprehensive Technical and Technology use in the Tourism Industry – Applications
(2) Upcoming Changes in the Technology – Key Focus on Next Generation Technology Solutions
(3) Basic Guidance in the Technology aspects involved in the Tourism Industry
(4) How to prepare the amalgamation with the other industry domains i.e. Banking and Insurance
(5) Specifically Designed Platforms for Banking, Insurance, Technology Sectors

OTHER SESSIONS

(a) Online Travel Shopping – Hotels / Airlines / Tour Packages / Train / Buses / Taxies

(1) Looking Does Not Automatically Lead to Booking – An Analysis of Click streams on a Indian Travel Agency Website
(2) Why Some Internet Users Don’t Buy Air Tickets Online – An Analysis
(3) Extracting Room Prices from Web Tables – an Ontology-Aware Approach

(b) Technology in the Destination Management Organizations

(1) DMOs, e-Democracy and Collaborative Destination Management: An Implementation Framework
(2) e-Learning Offers by Destination Management Organizations
(3) Online Destination Marketing: Do Local DMOs Consider International Guidelines for Their Website Design?
(4) Automated, scalable event capture and dissemination e-event management solution.

(c) Adoption and use of Technology by Airline Sector

(1) Use of Internet Applications and Tools by Airline companies in India: An Exploratory Study.

d) Technology in the Banking Sector

(1) How the technology in banking sector can be utilized in the tourism advancements
(2) How the new alliances can be beneficial for tourism sector development
(3) ATMs can be used for selling Tourism Products
(4) How banking sector huge infrastructure can be utilized

(e) Technology in the Insurance Sector

(1) How the technology in insurance sector can be utilized in the tourism advancements
(2) How the new alliances can be beneficial for tourism sector development

(f) Technology to be used by Airports, Hotels and Security Systems

(1) Hotel Domain Name Adoption and Implementation
(2) Technical Efficiency and Effectiveness in Hotel Sector
(3) Analysis of In-Room Technology Amenities in Hotels
(4) Advanced, automated video surveillance and analytics solution for hotels, banks and Airports.
(5) Asset and document inventory management and tracking using Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) technology applications to Hotels and Airlines industry.

(g) Travel Distribution Channels

(1) Indian Travel Agents and e-Commerce
(2) Dynamic e-Shop

(h) Social Media Marketing

(1) Destination Marketing through User Personalised Content
(2) The Role of Social Media in Promoting Special Events: Acceptance of Facebook ‘events’
(3) Adoption of viral Web 2.0 and Social Media technologies for improving user experience and effectiveness on online tourism, airline and hotel websites.

(i) Online Search for Travel Planning

(1) An Analysis of Search Engine Use for Travel Planning
(2) Web Usage Mining in Tourism – A Query Term Analysis and Clustering Approach
(3) Assessing the Dynamics of Search Results in Google

(j) Mobile Technology in Tourism Sector and Optimum Use

(1) Usability Guidelines for WAP-based Travel Planning Tools
(2) Application of QR Codes in Online Travel Distribution
(3) Evaluation of the concept of Early Acceptance Tests for Touristic Mobile Applications

(k) Tracking Technologies in Tourism Research, Management & Planning

(1) Effective tracking of tourists and key personnel using integrated Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID), GPS, Facial Recognition and Video Surveillance solution.
(2) Advance Visitor Tracking Analysis in Practice
(3) Monitoring and Managing Visitors flows in Destinations Using Aggregate GPS Data
(4) Tracking Tourists in Historic City Centers

(l) Assessing Travel Website & Parameters Evaluation

(1) Indian Residents’ Perception of Travel Websites
(2) An Instrument for Measuring Website Success
(3) User Experience Risk Assessment Model

(m) Online Branding / Goodwill

(1) Quantifying Brand Values Perception in Destination Websites: A Design Requirements Perspective
(2) Applying a Conceptual Framework to Analyze Online Reputation of Tourism Destinations
(3) An Analysis of the Impact of Tourism Journals on Google Scholar

(n) Sustainability and Inclusion through Technology

(1) Latest Technology and Its Role in Sustainable Tourism Development
(2) Exploratory Study on Contribution of Technology to Sustainable Tourism Development in India
(3) eTourism for All? Online Travel Planning of Disabled People

(o) Next Generation Marketing Plan in the Service Sector

(1) Ways and Means
(2) Corporate Connection
(3) Technology Views

(p) Technology and Service Strategy

(1) Creating new ways of Technology
(2) A historical Evaluation of ICT
(3) Applying Technology to Services
(4) Marketing Implications of the Intent
(5) eSatisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaints

(q) Web 2.0 in the Promotion of Tourism

(1) A Comparative Analysis of Content in Traditional Survey versus Hotel Review Websites
(2) An Investigation of Leapfrogging and Web 2.0 Implementation
(3) An Investigation of Motivation to Share Online Content by Young Travelers – Why & Where
(4) Web 2.0-style management of multimedia with video search and content extraction, adaptation capabilities.

(r) Online Destinations

(1) The Impact of Virtual Experience on People’s Travel Intensions
(2) Attitude towards e-Solutions in a Small Tourism Destination

(s) Use of green technologies that promote energy saving, usage analysis, monitoring and control. Industries: Hotels, Banks, Event/Tourism Centers, Airports, Insurance, Tourism Offices

(t) Optimization of real-time IT data sensing technologies to prevent fire, water contamination hazards, insect & disease detection/control. Industries: Hotels, Airlines, Banks, Insurance, Tourism Offices


(u) Adoption of Smart Infotainment and Digital Signage solutions to improve customer awareness and employee productivity and for generating advertisement revenues. Industries: Hotels, Airlines, Banks, Insurance, Tourism Offices

IMPORTANT DATES

Early Bird Registration : 15th April, 2011
Registration Deadline : 15th May, 2011
Last Date of Abstract Submission : 31st March, 2011
Conference : 7th - 9th July, 2011

REGISTRATION FEE DETAILS

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Early Bird Till 15/04/2011 After 15/04/2011
General Participant
Indian INR 10000/- INR 12000/-
Foreigner US$ 300 US$ 400

Student
Indian INR 6000/- INR 7500/-
Foreigner US$ 150 US$ 200

Registration Fee includes:

1) One Conference Kit
2) Three Conference Lunches
3) One Conference Dinner
4) Conference Attendance Certificate

Please Note:

For Registration Fee waiver the Sr. Professors / Professors / Associate Professors / Research Associates from the recognized Tourism Institutions, can write to the Organizing Chairman – ICTT 2011 at the below mentioned address:

Prof. (Dr.) Sushil
Organizing Chairman - ICTT 2011
Department of Management Studies,
IV Floor, Vishwakarma Bhavan,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India
Website: http://www.dmsiitd.org
Email: icttindia@gmail.com

Call for Abstracts

Abstract Submissions

The Ist International Conference on Tourism and Technology 2011 is happy to announce the opening of its Call for Abstracts Submission Website on January 11, 2011. Abstracts will be accepted for oral and / or poster presentations. Abstracts can only be submitted online via the online abstract submission form that is provided through a link on the conference website.

Click Here for submitting your abstract online.

January 11, 2011: Abstract Submission start date
March 31, 2011: Abstract Submission deadline
April 15, 2011: Last date of sending the Acceptance / Rejection notifications to the Submitters
April 16, 2011: Full Papers / Manuscripts Submission start date
May 15, 2011: Full Papers / Manuscripts Submission deadline

Please note that the online abstract submission system will close on March 31, 2011 at 1800 hrs and no submissions will be accepted after that date. It is the responsibility of each individual to ensure that his abstract is submitted online by the deadline. All abstracts must be submitted using the ICTT 2011 Online Abstract Submission System only. Abstract submissions sent by post or via email will not be considered.

Presenting Authors

The presenting author is the one who will personally present the paper at the conference, at either an oral or poster session. All communication from the conference will only be with the presenting author. The presenting author’s contact details should be filled when submitting the abstract online.

Presenting authors will need Internet access and an email address. The secretariat office will communicate with the presenting author through the e-mail address that is given at the time of submission.

Number of Abstracts

Only one abstract can be submitted by a particular presenting author. If more than one abstract is submitted by the same presenting author then the one submitted earlier will be deleted and not sent for review, however please try to submit the correct abstract for one time only and avoid submitting the abstract again.

Conference Key Concepts / Themes

The abstract can be submitted on any of the conference themes mentioned on the conference website. Click Here to view the CONFERENCE CONCEPTS / THEMES. Authors must select one theme from the list that best describes the contents of their Abstracts.

Abstract Format

The Ist ICTT 2011 will use an electronic process for the submission of abstracts.
Simple instructions will be provided at every step of the online submission process.

Please note the following:

For standardization, abstracts must not exceed the limit of 2 pages.
Abstracts need to be structured as follows:

* Title that clearly indicates the subject of the abstract
* Background
* Objectives
* Methods
* Results
* Conclusions

Review Process

The Technical & Abstract Committee will review all the submitted abstracts. Presenting authors of the abstracts will be informed of the selection outcome by email to the address they provided in the online abstract submission form.

THE ABSTRACT COMMITTEE’ S DECISION IS FINAL AND CANNOT BE APPEALED

Abstract Withdrawal

To withdraw your abstract, please send an email no later than March 31, 2011 to the Organizing Secretary at icttindia@gmail.com with a copy to icttindia@tbi.co.in. The email subject should state: Abstracts

Publication

All accepted abstracts will be published in the official abstract book of the conference.

Contact Information

For any query regarding abstract submission please contact at the below mentioned address:


G.V.R. Sastry
Organizing Secretary - ICTT 2011
Department of Management Studies,
IV Floor, Vishwakarma Bhavan,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India
Mobile: +91-9811183048
Website: http://www.dmsiitd.org
Email: shastrig@gmail.com
icttindia@gmail.com

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?

POLICY MAKERS / DECISION MAKERS / DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS
TOURISM INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS (HOTELS, AIRLINES, RESTAURANTS, TRAVEL AGENTS, etc)
MEMBERS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ADVOCACY GROUP
COMMUNITY LEADERS
GOVERNMENT & NON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
ACADEMIC PEOPLE; LECTURERS AND RESEARCHERS
BANKING INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
INSURANCE INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
GRADUATE STUDENTS

CONTACT US

Organizing Chairman - Prof. (Dr.) Sushil
Address:
Department of Management Studies,
IV Floor, Vishwakarma Bhavan,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India
Website: http://www.dmsiitd.org
Email: sushil@dms.iitd.ac.in

Organizing Secretary - G.V.R. Sastry
Address:
Department of Management Studies,
IV Floor, Vishwakarma Bhavan,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India
Mobile: +91-9811183048
Website: http://www.dmsiitd.org
Email: shastrig@gmail.com

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