scholarly journals The Impact of the Internet on Saudi Arabia Travel Agencies

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Fahad Saleh Alolayan
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Internet Revolution ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of the Internet revolution on travel agencies on Saudi Arabia’s travel agency market. A reliable and valid three-part questionnaire was developed: the first part collects the basic information on the travel agencies; the second part examines the extent to which travel agencies use the benefits of the Internet for their operations; the last part measures the real impact of the internet on travel agencies with four dimensions. A sample of 50 travel agencies fully participated in this study. The descriptive data of the sample indicates that the travel-agency industry in Saudi Arabia is still very small; more than 50% of the agencies operate with less than five employees in one or two branches only. More than 55% of the agencies have less than four years of experience and relatively small capital. In addition, the descriptive data reveals that 72% of the agencies in the sample do not have their own websites, and only 4% of the agencies have websites with features that complete customers’ transactions without human involvement. The main results assure the importance and the benefit of using the Internet for Saudi Arabia travel agencies; however, they have not yet used most of its advantages. Moreover, they do not see any threat or negative impact to their business from the Internet. A number of recommendations have been provided to this industry, such as using the power of the Internet as a global competition tool, and the opportunity of a major emergence among travel agencies in this market.

scholarly journals THE LEARNING PROCESS OF THE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES AS PRACTICE: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL APPROACH IN TRAVEL AGENCIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Souza Bispo ◽  
Arilda Schmidt Godoy
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Qualitative Empirical Research ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Technology and the internet are transforming social relations and the way of working and organizing of organizations in different markets. In this way, travel agencies were also impacted by these changes and are facing a time of transition and rediscovery. This paper uses the Practice-based studies (Gherardi, 2006) and ethonomethodology (Garfinkel, 2006) to understand the impact of technology in this kind of organization through a qualitative empirical research. The aim of the paper is to comprehend the process of learning that permeates the use of information and communication technologies, particularly the internet, as work practice in a travel agency and how it can reassemble this kind of organization. As main findings, the paper discusses the use of information and communication technologies as practice and their impact in the learning, knowing and organizing processes inside three travel agencies of a Brazilian company.

INFLUENCE OF THE MASS MEDIA AND THE INTERNET ON SPEECH OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Bagrintseva O.B. ◽  
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Pustokhaylova A.A. ◽  
Sergushova N. D. ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Impact

Initially, the Internet and the media were invented to facilitate information and communication between people. Recently, information has become easily accessible and unverified, so its quality has begun to deteriorate every day. It can be noted that the literacy rate of the population is falling significantly. Many speech and grammatical errors are made not only by schoolchildren, but also by adults and educated people. There is concern about the impact of the Internet on the younger generation. Now, under the influence of mass communications, new priorities and values are emerging, and speech and its standards are changing. Our research has revealed that the Internet and the media have a negative impact on the speech of each generation. But most of all, children are affected by this, since they are the main users of the Internet and cannot select correct and verified information.

scholarly journals The Impact of Internet Experience and Attitude on Student Preference for Blended Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majed Gharmallah Alzahrani ◽  
John Mitchell O’Toole
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Saudi Students ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Student Preference ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to investigate student experience with the Internet, and their attitudes towards using it, inan attempt to determine the impact of these experiences and attitudes on their view of the implementation of blendedlearning. Data from 142 Saudi students at a leading university in Saudi Arabia were collected via an onlinequestionnaire. The results reveal that students have both experience with and positive attitudes towards using theInternet. Demographic variables had no effect on these attitudes, but experience variables showed significant effects.Interestingly, there were mixed interactions regarding student study year; negatively with Internet experience andpositively with preference for the implementation of blended learning. Neither experience with the Internet norprogram of study appeared to influence student preference for blended learning but age, study year, and attitudestowards the Internet were associated with positive attitudes towards blended learning. Importantly, students in thepresent study supported the implementation of blended learning, but not entirely online learning. Student attitudestowards the Internet in general appeared to influence their attitude to learning approaches that use the Internet inblended learning environments. Discussion of these results is presented with suggested implications.

scholarly journals Loyalty Model Proposal of Travel Agency Customers

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3702
Author(s):  
Dudek ◽  
Jaremen ◽  
Michalska-Dudek ◽  
Walesiak
Keyword(s):  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Impact

Customer loyalty to a destination and accommodation services constitutes a frequent object of research; however, customer loyalty to travel agencies is rarely analyzed. The presented article is an attempt to fill in this research gap. Its purpose is to construct and verify the model covering the impact of the selected factors on the loyalty level of customers of travel agencies operating in Poland. The conceptualization of the loyalty model of travel agency customers (based on the European path-based EPSI model) proposed in the article was first used to illustrate the existing correlations in customer behavior to analyze and explain the development of the loyalty phenomenon vis-a-vis travel agency customers. The aforementioned assumptions—having applied the structural equation modelling (SEM)—were reflected in the development of the theoretical model of travel agencies customer loyalty, the empirical verification of which (N = 1151) allowed us to determine the impacts of selected factors (i.e., the perceived quality of the travel agency’s offers, its image and the satisfaction with its service buyers) on the loyalty level of travel agency customers. It has been shown that two major factors have positive impacts on the loyalty of travel agency customers: (i) the perceived quality of travel agency offers, and (ii) its image. Furthermore, the conducted analysis highlights the positive influence of the perceived value of travel agency offers on the loyalty of customers.

The Impact of the Internet on Travel Agencies in Hong Kong

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Law ◽  
Angela Law ◽  
Edmund Wai
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Measuring the Effect of the Internet on Economic Growth: The Case of Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Hisham J. Bardesi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to examine and assess the impact of the Internet on economic growth in Saudi Arabia. Various studies show that there is a relationship between the growth rate of GDP and the Internet, as estimated by Internet user numbers. In this paper, the ordinary least squares (OLS) model is utilized to study the economic impact of Internet Access from 1994 to 2018, which has had a profound effect on the market structure of many sectors and Saudi’s global macroeconomic performance. The study constructs a model to investigate any significant impact of the Internet on the Saudi economy. Finally, this paper suggests that an understanding of the role of the Internet is essential for policymakers who plan to promote new forms of economic growth in the future. To take a long-term view implies working on technologies that could improve the economy and people’s lives by creating a technological ecosystem in and around Saudi Arabia, along with other major economies.

scholarly journals Protecting the life and health of students from the negative impact of digital technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 10016
Author(s):  
Elena Millerova ◽  
Igor Napkhanenko ◽  
Alexander Fedorov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
The Impact

This article is devoted to the study of the negative aspects of the impact of the Internet on the life and health of persons who have not reached the age of majority in Russia (that is, the age of 18), as well as the criminal law and forensic possibilities of countering this. In the article, the authors goes by the types of information that are legally prohibited for distribution among minors in the Russian Federation. Having analyzed the types of this prohibited information, the authors identified exactly those types that can threaten the life and health of children. The article examines the problematic aspects of familiarizing minors with such information on the Internet, analyzes the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provide for criminal liability for the distribution of this information on the Internet. The practical aspect of this study is expressed in the analysis of the issues of qualification of such crimes, their differentiation with similar elements of administrative offenses. As a result of the analysis of these criminal law norms, the authors have identified a number of gaps that need to be filled. In this regard, in order to increase the effectiveness of the criminal law struggle against the negative impact of the Internet on the life and health of minors, some amendments to the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are proposed. The article also analyzes the forensic aspects applicable to this topic, namely, it examines some features and problems of identifying, disclosing and investigating crimes committed against minors with the use of the Internet. The author's conclusions and suggestions on this matter are expressed.

scholarly journals Increasing Knowledge About the Impact of Online Games on Health in Sukasenang Village, Tanjungjaya District, Tasikmaya Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Hery Fauzi ◽  
Fahmi Sidiq
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Parental Supervision ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to describe the factors causing playing online games and their negative impact on students in Sukasenang Village, Tanjungjaya District, Tasikmaya Regency. The subject of this research is that it consists of students playing online games, SDN 1 Cigowak village Sukasenang. Data collection techniques in this study using observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the factors that cause playing online games and their negative impact on students at the internet cafe at SDN 1 Cigowak village Sukasenang are visible and real. This is proven by the factors that cause children to play online games, namely (a) less than optimal communication between children and family members, especially parents; (b) Lack of parental supervision of children; (c) Errors in parenting patterns from parents to children; (d) The boredom or boredom of a child will be a monotonous routine. Online games have negative impacts including social impacts, psychological impacts, and physical impacts.

scholarly journals Globalization and perception of tourism trends by supply and demand

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 04019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlína Pellešová
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategy ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

The article deals with the development of trends in tourism, specified by selected authors, who describe trends. The aim of the paper is to compare trends in supply and demand. In the field of supply, we focused on the view of tourism business. Within the institutional support project Tourism Trends in the Moravian-Silesian Region, the impact of globalization on trends, both on the demand side and on the supply side, was analysed. Following methods were used: analysis, comparison, interview, questionnaire survey. The research revealed that most of the customers are affected by globalization, about half of the customers use the Internet to select and purchase travel agency services, one fifth use discount portals. Customers have also focused most on the following holiday trends: finding new experiences, active and adventurous trips, discovering unique places, gastronomic tourism, sightseeing and cycling. Based on the comparison of trends from the perspective of customers, travel agencies and the description of trends from the Tourism Management Strategy in the MSR 2017, it was found that traditional tourism, urban, cognitive and creative tourism, rural tourism, spa tourism are considered dominant, along with growing interest in gastronomic tourism, extreme experiences and adventure tours.

The impact of positioning on click-through-rates in hotel metasearch engines

2021 ◽  
pp. 135676672110426
Author(s):  
Oriol Anguera-Torrell ◽  
Claudia Langer
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Order Effect ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Click Through Rate ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
Online Travel Agency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Online Travel Agencies

The recent arrival of the metasearch as a distribution channel within the hotel industry has the potential to provide hotels less dependency on online travel agencies. Metasearch engines display different reservation options for the same hotel in the same interface, which might include online travel agencies and the official hotel website, establishing an apparent level playing field. In this context, it remains unclear if there will be a presentation-order effect of the different options when price and cancellation policy are the same due to two reasons. First, hotels compete against popular and trustworthy online travel agencies. Second, the minimalist and functional design of metasearch platforms might help consumers differentiate among the options, possibly impacting the decision-making process. Accordingly, the present study aims at investigating the relationship between a hotel's site position and a higher click-through rate in a metasearch whilst competing directly and on the same page with a well-known online travel agency. To this end, an experiment was conducted in which participants had to finish the booking process for a given hotel on a major metasearch engine, where they could choose between the hotel's official site and a leading online travel agency. The main finding implies that occupying the top position increases the click-through rate for unknown hotels, whilst hotels associated with well-known chains are not subject to this effect.

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