scholarly journals Impact of Mobile Applications in Changing the Tourist Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Sónia Dias ◽  
Victor Alves Afonso
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Social Applications ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This exploratory study investigates the impact of technology on the tourist experience. This research analyzed the effect of new technologies on the behaviour of new tourism consumers, the importance of mobile technology in the tourism industry, and the phenomenon of mobile tourism in the change of the tourism experience. It also studied the spillover effect that these changes have had on the use of mobile applications in tourism, trying to understand their impact on the tourism experience. A quantitative and qualitative analysis supported this investigation through a survey of 110 Portuguese tourists using applications and two interviews with administrators of mobile application development companies, and, finally, through the analysis of four case studies. The main conclusion is that smartphones and mobile travel applications can substantially alter the tourist experience. Tourists assume that smartphones have motivated changes in the activities and emotions experienced, especially in social applications that allow them to maintain contact with their friends and families and increase security levels.

Family tourism: Interpersonal interaction, existential authenticity and quality of tourist experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 135676672110224
Author(s):  
Han Chen ◽  
Yan Jiao ◽  
Xiaoyi Li ◽  
Kun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
The Impact

The functional value experience of family tourism has often been paid attention both by tourists themselves and the tourism industry, but the individual value experience of parents in family tourism has been neglected. Family tourism shifts the scenario of interpersonal interaction between families from home, the conventional environment, to a non-conventional one. This change in the interactive situation will inevitably bring about changes in interpersonal interaction behavior and individual perception, especially to tourists who take on the role of parents in a nuclear family. This study enriches the examination of the family tourism experience by exploring the interpersonal interaction, existential authenticity travel experiences, and quality of tourist experience perceived by parents in family tourism. The main findings are: 1) In the non-conventional environment of tourism, effective interaction between tourists and their families helps to improve tourists’ emotional experience and satisfaction; 2) Three aspects of existential authenticity are the internal causes of the impact of interpersonal interaction on emotional experience and satisfaction; 3) Differences in parental roles make important discrepancies between men and women’s perception of family tourism experiences. This study provides insights to understanding the family tourism market and brings valuable findings to the area of family tourism marketing and management.

Impact of Technology Infusion on System Complexity and Modularity

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
GwangKi Min ◽  
Eun Suk Suh ◽  
Katja Hölttä-Otto
Keyword(s):  
System Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
System Complexity ◽  
Host System ◽  
Technology Infusion ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Complex systems often have long life cycles with requirements that are likely to change over time. Therefore, it is important to be able to adapt the system accordingly over time. This is often accomplished by infusing new technologies into the host system in order to update or improve overall system performance. However, technology infusion often results in a disruption in the host system. This can take the form of a system redesign or a change in the inherent attributes of the system. In this study, we analyzed the impact of technology infusion on system attributes, specifically the complexity and modularity. Two different systems that were infused with new technologies were analyzed for changes in complexity and modularity.

scholarly journals The dynamic model for the sustainable development of the domestic tourism in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 10008
Author(s):  
Tatyana Kirillova ◽  
Irina Zhilinkova ◽  
Svetlana Golovkina ◽  
Alla Finko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Multifactor Models ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

The article examines the role of the tourism industry in creating new jobs in the regions and increasing the welfare of the population. The multiplicative effect of the tourism industry is expressed in the active development of related sectors of the national economy. The spillover effect of tourism spending on the region’s economy can be estimated using an “input-output” model. The paper provides an algorithm for determining the impact of changes in tourism spending on gross output by industry, income and employment in the region. Studies have shown that the development of tourism in St. Petersburg leads to an uneven formation of output, income and employment in various sectors of the region’s economy. The development of the concept of sustainable tourism development should be based on an assessment of the socio-economic state and prospects for the development of the tourism industry. The methodology, which includes an assessment of the resource and throughput potential, is most fully consistent with the principles of the concept of sustainable tourism development. Application of the World Bank methodology for the development of the adjusted net savings index. It allows you to internalize the external costs of economic activity associated with negative impacts on ecosystems and public health, which are an underestimated value in models of sustainable tourism development. The combination of this methodology with traditional multifactor models for assessing the level of tourism development will allow a more targeted approach to the choice of mechanisms and objects of state regulation at the regional levels within the framework of indicative planning.

scholarly journals A fair efficacy formula for assessing the effectiveness of contact tracing applications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Proximity Detection ◽  
Epidemiological Risk ◽  
Efficacy Measure ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

AbstractMobile contact tracing apps have been developed by many countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trials have focussed on unobserved population trials or staged scenarios aimed to simulate real life. No efficacy measure has been developed that assesses the fundamental ability of any proximity detection protocol to accurately detect, measure, and therefore assess the epidemiological risk that a mobile phone owner has been placed at. This paper provides a fair efficacy formula that can be applied to any mobile contact tracing app, using any technology, allowing it’s likely epidemiological effectiveness to be assessed. This paper defines such a formula and provides results for several simulated protocols as well as one real life protocol tested according to the standard methodology set out in this paper. The results presented show that protocols that use time windows greater than 30 seconds or that bucket their distance analogue (E.g. RSSI for Bluetooth) provide poor estimates of risk, showing an efficacy rating of less than 6%. The fair efficacy formula is shown in this paper to be able to be used to calculate the ‘Efficacy of contact tracing’ variable value as used in two papers on using mobile applications for contact tracing [6]. The output from the formulae in this paper, therefore, can be used to directly assess the impact of technology on the spread of a disease outbreak. This formula can be used by nations developing contact tracing applications to assess the efficacy of their applications. This will allow them to reassure their populations and increase the uptake of contact tracing mobile apps, hopefully having an effect on slowing the spread of COVID-19 and future epidemics.

scholarly journals ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION ON PRODUCTIVITY OF PLANTAIN FARMERS IN NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-324
Author(s):  
Osagie John Afodu ◽  
Olufunso Emmanuel Akinboye ◽  
A O Akintunde ◽  
L C Ndubuisi-Ogbonna ◽  
B A Shobo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Sub-Saharan Africa has been plaque with food insecurity due to lack of adoption of modern technology to improve their productivity. Technology is the systematic application of scientific or other organized body of knowledge to practical purposes. This includes new ideas, inventions, innovations, techniques, methods and materials. Since increasing agricultural productivity is critical to meeting the continues rise in demand for food, agricultural technologies will play immense role in increasing the production of food. As a result, it is useful to examine the adoption of technologies among farmers. A multistage sampling technique was used for the selection of five hundred and fifty - six plantain farmers. The data were collected through the administration of a well-structured questionnaire on a cross-section surveyed of plantain farmers. The result of the study shown that educating the plantain farmers in Nigeria will enable them adopt new technologies which will enhance their productivity.

scholarly journals Teaching students to develop GIS applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-257
Author(s):  
Наталия Дмитриевна Хрулёва
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Mobile Gis ◽  
Gis Applications

Мобильные ГИС-приложения становятся все более сложными, как решаемые с их помощью задачи. Обычное ГИС-приложение должно включать такие элементы, как искусственный интеллект, распознавание образов или машинное обучение, реляционные или нереляционные базы данных, пространственное представление и рассуждения. Такие компании, как Google и Apple, разрабатывают новые технологии, связанные с разработкой мобильных приложений. Например, Apple представила в 2019 году на WWDC2019 и WWDC2020 новую технологию под названием SwiftUI, которая направлена на сложности разработки мобильного приложения и позволяющая интегрировать такие технологии, как Mapkit, для представления пространственной информации. В данной работе представлены исследования преимуществ использования SwiftUI для интеграции Mapkit в качестве основы пространственного представления для облегчения разработки мобильных ГИС-приложений. Информационные технологии имеют большое разнообразие применений в различных областях науки. Например, искусственный интеллект и машинное обучение - это технологии, которые начинают широко использоваться в мобильных приложениях. Целью данной работы является исследования способов разработки мобильных приложений, которые могут выполнять представление и вычисления информации в соответствии с требованиями. Mobile GIS applications are becoming more and more complex, as the tasks they solve are. A typical GIS application should include elements such as artificial intelligence, pattern recognition or machine learning, relational or non-relational databases, spatial representation and reasoning. Companies such as Google and Apple are developing new technologies related to the development of mobile applications. For example, Apple introduced a new technology called SwiftUI at WWDC2019 and WWDC2020 in 2019, which aims to reduce the complexity of mobile application development and allows integrating technologies such as Mapkit to represent spatial information. This paper presents studies of the advantages of using SwiftUI to integrate Mapkit as a basis for spatial representation to facilitate the development of mobile GIS applications. Information technologies have a wide variety of applications in various fields of science. For example, artificial intelligence and machine learning are technologies that are beginning to be widely used in mobile applications. The purpose of this work is to investigate ways to develop mobile applications that can perform the presentation and calculation of information in accordance with the requirements.

scholarly journals Read All about It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 1144-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Alexopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technology Shocks ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Technology Shock ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Existing indicators of technical change are plagued by shortcomings. I present new measures based on books published in the field of technology that resolve many of these problems and use them to identify the impact of technology shocks on economic activity. They are positively linked to changes in R&D and scientific knowledge, and capture the new technologies' commercialization dates. Changes in information technology are found to be important sources of economic fluctuations in the post-WWII period, and total factor productivity, investment, and, to a lesser extent, labor are all shown to increase following a positive technology shock. (JEL E22, E23, E32, O33, O34, O47)

scholarly journals New Technologies and Not-So-New Democracies

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (40) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schudson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Discussions of the impact of the new media on democratic politics often generalize too broadly about new technologies and almost always take for granted a uniformity about democracies. Democra- cies vary across nations and over time. For the USA, it is argued that Americans have had four different visions of what political spe- ech and participation should be. American democracy has shifted from a citizenship of deference, to one of party enthusiasm, to a model of the informed citizen, to the contemporary model of irreve- rent citizenship. Each model calls forth different versions of a public sphere. What is the democracy that technology is having an impact on? This question must be integrated in the discussion of the impact of technology on democracy.

scholarly journals Using Mobile Applications In Caregiving: The User Experiences Of Family Caregivers Of Persons Living With Dementia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel He Wang
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Application Development ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
The Impact

To date, there is no research that explores the user experiences of family caregivers of persons living with dementia on using mobile applications to support caregiving activities. This is of particular concern given that limited understandings of the user experience in designing technology have often led to end-users experiencing barriers in technology adoption and use. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative descriptive study that used photo-elicitation interviewing was to explore the experiences of family caregivers of persons living with dementia on using mobile applications in their caregiving roles. The findings revealed how mobile applications played an important role in the lives of the caregiver, the care recipient, and both together as a dyad. This research advances our understanding of the impact of mobile application use in caregiving and provides direction for future research, policy, education, practice and application development.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF TOURISM EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Тетяна Зубехіна ◽  
Volodymyr Terletsky ◽  
Natalia Olhova-Marchuk ◽  
Volodymyr Kushnir
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Training System ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Tourism Education ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes the problems and prospects of tourism education in Ukraine. It is established that the level of socio-cultural development of any country directly depends on the level of development of the tourism industry and the relevant qualifications of human resources. It was found that today there is a need to train professionals in the field of tourism, who have competencies in the use of new technologies and software, marketing tools to promote tourism products and services, communication and psychological skills, orientation in modern trends in tourism and etc. The normative-legal base of tourism education systems in Ukraine is considered. It is determined that our country is still on the way to implementing key existing laws and regulations aimed at the Europeanization of education, including tourism education. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education system, in particular in the field of tourism, has been studied. It is concluded that the availability of an education and training system suitable for the digital age is very important in modern conditions. It is established that future specialists in the field of tourism do not have sufficient practical experience after graduating from higher education institutions. It is concluded that their practical training plays an important role in the training of future highly qualified employees. The necessity of using foreign experience in training specialists in the field of tourism, which will help domestic tourism education to enter the international standardized system, is substantiated. Perspective directions of modernization of the domestic system of tourist education in the context of European integration processes are outlined, namely: strengthening of the practical component of tourist education, providing access to foreign internships; adjustment of educational programs taking into account world trends and needs of tourists; stimulating students and teachers to international exchange of experience and internships, etc.

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