scholarly journals ICTs in the hospitality industry

Tourism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Daniela Garbin Praničević ◽  
Ante Mandić
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Primary Constraint ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Information And Communication

This study delivers the importance-performance analysis of the information and communication technology (ICT) driven solutions among small and family-owned hotels (SFH) in Croatia. The analysis reflects the opinions of owners of 21 SFH, all of which are members of the National Association of Family and Small Hotels (OMH). The findings demonstrated the existence of a significant gap between the perception of the importance of specific innovations and actual hotel performances. In most cases, hotel performances are rated significantly lower than the perceived importance of particular innovation, which indicate that resources should be better and more wisely allocated. In some cases, hotels do not recognise the benefits of ICTs used or are not satisfied with the results. The primary constraint for higher integration of the ICTs within this sample is the lack of financial resources. The study reveals the importance-performance gaps within the perception of technological innovations in the SFHs, elaborates on potential constraints for more substantial reliance on ICTs and discusses the possible implications. Finally, the study provides recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals A Review of Human–Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality Research Fields in Cognitive InfoCommunications

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2646
Author(s):  
Jozsef Katona
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Information And Communication

Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) is a young and evolving discipline that is at the crossroads of information and communication technology (ICT) and cognitive sciences with many promising results. The goal of the field is to provide insights into how human cognitive capabilities can be merged and extended with the cognitive capabilities of the digital devices surrounding us, with the goal of enabling more seamless interactions between humans and artificially cognitive agents. Results in the field have already led to the appearance of numerous CogInfoCom-based technological innovations. For example, the field has led to a better understanding of how humans can learn more effectively, and the development of new kinds of learning environment have followed accordingly. The goal of this paper is to summarize some of the most recent results in CogInfoCom and to introduce important research trends, developments and innovations that play a key role in understanding and supporting the merging of cognitive processes with ICT.

scholarly journals Microgrid Cyber-Security: Review and Challenges toward Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 5649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bushra Canaan ◽  
Bruno Colicchio ◽  
Djaffar Ould Abdeslam
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Direction ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
A Current

The importance of looking into microgrid security is getting more crucial due to the cyber vulnerabilities introduced by digitalization and the increasing dependency on information and communication technology (ICT) systems. Especially with a current academic unanimity on the incremental significance of the microgrid’s role in building the future smart grid, this article addresses the existing approaches attending to cyber-physical security in power systems from a microgrid-oriented perspective. First, we start with a brief descriptive review of the most commonly used terms in the latest relevant literature, followed by a comprehensive presentation of the recent efforts explored in a manner that helps the reader to choose the appropriate future research direction among several fields.

scholarly journals Stages of ICT implementation on buses and at major bus terminal in Indonesia for sustainable transportation

2019 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 03017
Author(s):  
Anastasia Caroline Sutandi
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Ict Implementation ◽  
Information And Communication

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on buses and at major bus terminal in large cities in Indonesia is needed for sustainable transportation. Based on the existing condition of buses and major bus terminals, ICT implementation cannot be completed at one go, but needs to be done in different stages. The aims of this study are identification of existing ICT implementation, to determine the necessity and priority of ICT implementation based on passengers’ needs and to provide stages of ICT implementation on buses and at major bus terminals in Indonesia for the purpose of sustainable transportation. Case studies are carried on Trans-Sarbagita buses and at Mengwi major bus terminal in Denpasar, Bali and on Surabaya-Yogyakarta buses and at Purabaya major bus terminal in Surabaya, Indonesia. Five hundred and sixty-six passengers and the terminal authority are involved in this study. Data collecting method is questionnaire and interview. Important performance analysis is used in analysis. Results indicated that the stages are: 1) maintenance of existing ICT daily operations, i.e. CCTV and online-ticketing, 2) dissemination of existing and future ICT facilities to the society, 3) effort to implement ICT needed by passengers, 4) effort to implement ICT based on passengers’ priority, and 5) implementation of other advanced ICT in the future with financial support and the firm effort of local government, national government and industry, consistently and continuously.

scholarly journals Security implications of the personal information environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 04041
Author(s):  
Pavel Valášek
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Suitable Form ◽  
Preliminary Study

This article discusses a security in a background of the personal information environment. A role and importance of personal information environment and its security is on the rise due to the increasing inclusion of information and communication technology. In many cases, the focus of conducted studies is on the technological part of the problem. In this article, results of the user-oriented study are presented. The main aim was to establish how users perceive security applications. As a preliminary study, a method of survey was utilized. Gathered data were evaluated using common statistical methods. Results of the study are presented in a suitable form with a consideration of a large variety of answers between users. Results show areas of technology and user disagreements. These established differences will be used as a basis of the future research.

scholarly journals Prospective teachers’ information and communication technology metaphors

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 09 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omur   Akdemir ◽  
Dincer Bicer ◽  
R. Sukru Parmaksiz
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Ict Training ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Determination of the perceptions of the prospective teachers about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) terms has a remarkable potential to provide input for technology integration plans and ICT training. Within this context, the purpose of this study is to discover the metaphors constructed by prospective teachers for ICT terms. Data were gathered from 180 prospective teachers through a survey. 977 valid metaphors constructed by the participants were grouped into conceptual categories for the six ICT terms. The most common conceptual categories are “developing and changing” for technology, “making life easy” for computers and search engines, “limitless and endless” for the Internet, “means of communication” for social networks, and “addictive items” for video games. Future research should concentrate on investigating the match and mismatches between the intended use of the ICT tools and the perception of the prospective teachers. Keywords: metaphors, ICT, information and communication technology, technology integration, pre-service teacher, teacher education, prospective teachers.

scholarly journals Performance analysis of hybrid cryptosystem - A technique for better security using blowfish and RSA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
Suresh Timilsina ◽  
Sarmila Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Total Execution Time ◽  
Plain Text ◽  
Rsa Algorithm ◽  
Cipher Text ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Cryptographic System

Security is the most concerned topic in this today’s world of Information and Communication Technology. Single layer security can be breached easily so hybrid cryptographic system has been introduced. Hybrid system can be made by combining two or more algorithms of similar or dissimilar types. Here, combing of Blowfish algorithm along with RSA algorithm is performed. After combination their performance analysis is done based on five parameters namely Throughput, Encryption time, Decryption time, Total Execution time and Plain text size to cipher text size ratio with different key size of Blowfish algorithm ranging from 32 bit-448 bit. Among these 5 different hybrid cryptosystem we found that the Blowfish RSA system with key size 448 bit has better performance than all other bit size.

Progression and development of information and communication technology research in hospitality and tourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Law ◽  
Daniel Leung ◽  
Irene Cheng Chu Chan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism ◽  
Search Approach

Purpose This study aims to present a state-of-the art review on information and communication technology (ICT) research in hospitality and tourism published between 2014 and 2017. Design/methodology/approach A total of 288 full-length articles from eight top-tier hospitality and tourism journals were gathered by harnessing a systematic literature search approach. Subsequently, the authors used a qualitative content analysis to review, analyse and assign all included articles into a framework with six consumer-related and five supplier-related research streams. Findings In terms of volume (i.e. the amounts and ratios of ICT research in top-tier journals by publication year) and variety (i.e. the diversity of research topics), a significant progression of ICT research in hospitality and tourism is observed. However, some old and new knowledge gaps are still inadequately addressed, thus requiring scholars and practitioners to conduct additional research in the future. Practical implications The accumulation of knowledge and actionable clues in this study is expected to keep practitioners updated with the overwhelming volume of ICT research. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by accelerating the accumulation of knowledge on research topics and setting forth an agenda for future research. The findings also complement prior literature reviews by providing an overview of how knowledge on ICT research in hospitality and tourism has progressed since 2014.

Does Information and Communication Technology Complement or Replace Social Travel among Young Adults?

2015 ◽  
Vol 2531 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexa Delbosc ◽  
Graham Currie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Telephone Contact ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Future Research Directions

Young adults are becoming less dependent on the car for travel. Increased use of information and communication technology (ICT) has been linked to this trend; this link suggests that ICT enables connection without wheels and thus less travel. This study tested that theory through a survey of young adults in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Two competing hypotheses were tested: (a) increased contact through ICT replaces–reduces in-person travel and (b) increased contact through ICT complements–increases in-person travel. The survey found that contact with friends was a high priority for young adults: 81% contacted friends daily through social media, 74% by phone, and 39% in person. A multinomial logistic regression tested associations between frequent in-person contact and several variables. Daily social media and telephone contact with friends was strongly associated with more frequent in-person contact. Daily social media use made someone 6.7 times more likely to have seen friends daily, while daily phone contact made someone 9.9 times more likely to have seen friends daily. The findings supported the complement–increase hypothesis (i.e., ICT use complements in-person contact rather than replaces it). Results are discussed and future research directions proposed.

scholarly journals A Sustainable Rural Telecentre Concept on Sustainability Pillars

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Marhaini Mohd Noor
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Community Centre

Over the years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become more relevant in today’s society. A telecentre is a community centre where people use, access and utilizes the benefits of the centre through the ICT-based services provided. This paper reviews rural telecentres in Malaysia. The roles and functions of telecentres are explained and discussed to analyze the question on sustainability. The ‘Just Transition’ is a recent and particular transition for rural telecentre to be sustained. Based on the qualitative analysis and review of telecentres’ sustainability, we found that some telecentres can be sustained while others could not. This is because of the impacts of economic, social, environmental and policy sustainability pillars on community telecentres in Malaysia. The review of this paper reveals findings obtained from in-depth interviews with telecentre managers and telecentres’ sustainability depends on natural resources, geographical location, social entrepreneurship, social capital, human resources (competency of leaders) and basic infrastructure. Therefore, future research should be focus on the roles of governance on resource utilization and implement effective public policy for telecentres’ sustainability.

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