ICTs as a co-creative way for effective tourism strategic marketing in Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4315419 |
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| Authors | Mohammed I Eraqi (Fayoum University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 370 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Tourism Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-0442 • E-ISSN: 1759-0450 |
| Publisher | Inderscience Publishers (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1504/ijta.2014.065598 |
| OpenAlex | W1991493610 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) refer to the computer hardware, software packages, internet and web-based technologies. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the strategic importance of ICTs as a co-creative approach for the effective tourism strategic marketing. It explains their role in rationalising tourism enterprises management marketing decisions through the efficient use of knowledge and dissemination of information to enhance tourism business sector competitiveness in Egypt. The research objectives were achieved by means of a survey that was distributed among tourism marketing managers. The research methodology depends on Likert-scale of attitude measurement. Results reveal that Egyptian tourism institutions/organisations are in a hybrid stage concerning ICTs developments. Most tourism organisations use ICTs mainly as a communication tool, while few of them have developed websites, and a very small percentage has established a comprehensive ICTs strategy to be presented online
Business · Digital marketing · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Knowledge management · Likert scale · Political science · The Internet · Tourism · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Marketing
| Highly cited | No |
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