background: role of information source, perceived benefits and risks, and destination image has significantly been examined in travel and tourism literature; however, in medical tourism it is yet to be examined thoroughly. the concept discussed in this article is drawn form well established models in tourism literature. methods: the purpose of this research was to identify the source of informa...

Covid-19 has created public fear and tourism industry is among the most affected sectors with many travel restrictions put in place. Since there still a lot of uncertainty about international tourism, people are looking for safer methods to restart some sense normalcy travel. Staycation becoming more popular as convenient method unwind without having far, however it important look at tourists’ ...

Out-of-town recommendation is designed for those users who leave their home-town areas and visit the they have never been to before. It challenging recommend Point-of-Interests (POIs) out-of-town since check-in behavior determined by not only user’s preference but also travel intention. Besides, intentions are complex dynamic, which leads big difficulties in understanding such precisely. In thi...

This study is to identify factors that affect the use of or the intention to use Internet as a substitute for transportation. Data were collected from a sample of workers who live in Rhode Island, the United States. The findings indicate that work time flexibility, encouraging employers, educator as the occupation, having access to Internet at home, using computers longer than one hour a day, h...

It is widely believed that road traffic as a whole self-adapts to the current situation to make travel times shorter, if the navigation devices exploit real-time traffic information. A novel theoretical approach to study this belief is the online routing game model. This chapter describes the model of online routing games in order to be able to determine how we can measure and prove the benefit...

The rapid development and popularity of wireless internet and mobile communication technology have given rise to mobile learning or M-Learning. M-Learning, a combination of E-Learning and wireless technology, has brought a totally new perspective for learners. The employees of a travel agency were invited to take part in this study. The study aims at discussing the hypotheses demonstrating the ...

This study is particularly interested in investigating how young tourists perceive and trust Instagram travel influencers examine what aspects of the influencers’ posts can successfully spark intention their followers to visit a destination promoted/recommended. employed quantitative approach using cross-sectional employing non-probability sampling technique. A total 366 responded questionnaire...

Despite its increase in recent years, e-commerce is far from surpassing traditional trade, and the online purchase of travel arrangements no exception. Using an integrated model founded theory about consumers’ attitude behaviour, we studied behaviour intention purchasers services, based on questionnaire responses 251 respondents. The results indicate that loading time, security, visual appeal h...