Web 2.0 and Tourism
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Development of ICTs and the expansion of the Internet have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Platform of tourism increasingly get to the Internet nowadays which is vitally important because tourism is an information-intense industry. The aim of this study is to show a brief summary of the significance of the Hungarian tourism with the help of important statistics. Due to an online survey this paper discusses the knowledge of the 18-25 age group students at our University in connection with Web 2.0 applications and also reveals which information sources are the most important during the travel decision-making process of the students. Future aim of the research is to examine the use and adoption of Web 2.0 by tourists and tourism related organisations in Hungary, because there are only a few researches dealing with Hungarian travellers’ and tourism related companies’ attitudes of using this new technology.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011