Predicting Tourists Decisions to Adopt Mobile Travel Booking

Travel the World: Analyzing and Predicting Booking Behavior using E-mail Travel Receipts

Tourism industry has grown tremendously in the previous several decades. Despite its global impact, there still remain a number of open questions related to better understanding of tourists and their habits. In this work we analyze the largest data set of travel receipts considered thus far, and focus on exploring and modeling booking behavior of online customers. We extract useful, actionable ...

Predicting Expenditure Patterns Based on Motivations to Travel for Active Sport Tourists

Socially Enhanced Travel Booking: A Case Study

The ability to obtain user data in an unobtrusive way is instrumental to the success of recommendations based on collaborative data. In a travel booking scenario, where data about the current user was sparse, a solution based on displaying booking statistics was proposed. A prototype system was built in a joint project with the international transport and travel service company Stena Line. A qu...

Examining Teachers' Decisions To Adopt New Technology

This study examined teachers’ beliefs about technology adoption as a reasoned, deliberate, intentional decision-making process, as reflected in Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from teachers in four schools located in the southeastern region of the United States. Overall results indicated that technology adoption decisions were influenc...

Tourists responses to mobile augmented reality travel guides: The role of emotions on adoption behavior

This research presents a mobile augmented reality (MAR) travel guide, named CorfuAR, which supports personalized recommendations. We report the development process and devise a theoretical model that explores the adoption of MAR applications through their emotional impact. A field study on Corfu visitors (n=105) shows that the functional properties of CorfuAR evoke feelings of pleasure and arou...