synergy of technology and tourism 2014

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Innovative Technology is the problem solving agent for major tourism actors, including diverse facilitators,motivators and end users, who are driven by the need of 6S, namely Self, Search, Selection, Sense, Score and Share. Technology is re shaping the process of tourism development, management, planning and marketing.

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Traveler and Technology

Today’s travelers are increasingly

expecting travel companies to

enrich online travel planning with

personalized and relevant

offers. The latest devices, mobile

functionality and social networks

are shaping the consumer leisure

travel planning process

-PhoCusWright's Traveler Technology Survey

2013

Technology and Traveler

Technology re-engineers the

entire process of developing,

managing and marketing tourism

products and destinations,

Consumers’ want always shapes

market behavior.

Changing behavior

Online first - Research process for travel

information on the internet has increased

from 65% in 2012 to 68% in 2013.

Get mobile - Travel shoppers are using

their smart phones and tablets to research

for upcoming trips, view maps, and read

reviews.

More visual - By 2017, Google predicts that

digital video will be even more popular

than social networking

Travel Technology

Travel technology/tourism technology, /hospitality

automation–

Application of Information Technology (IT) or

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in

travel, tourism and hospitality.

Travel technology application including CRS booking

engine, flight tracking, flight hacking, GPS tour guide

audio guide, pod guide, application of GIS/RS

management zoning etc

Dominant Tourism Players

Facilitators Motivators End users

Airlines,

tour operators,

hotel chains,

transporting industries

etc

Policy makers,

governments,

educators,

media,

local community,

technology etc

Travelers

Innovation in Tourism

5 Major Innovation Dimensions

Product innovation - new products and services for tourism

Organizational innovation - new forms of organization and

management

Process innovation - new ways of making tourism known

Logistic innovation - new ways of supplying products or services

to customers

Market innovation - new ways of marketing and consumer

behavior

Destructive Innovation

Economic Concept of Innovation –

-New good

-New supply

-New method of production

-New Market

-New Organization

Joseph Schumpeter - Creative Destruction

Innovation

Innovation is the marriage of new knowledge,

embodied in an invention, with the successful

introduction of that invention into marketplace.

It is only through “innovative entrepreneurship”

which introduce some new product or service,

or method of production or delivery

– that societies advance their technological

frontiers and thus their standards of living

(Baumol et al. 2008).

Technological Knowledge transfer

Algorithms – Data Mining – Creativity - Innovation

Web Database

Public Satellite Data

Australian Research

Online planning and booking to Australia 2012

(10 countries)

Most Online Planning Least Online Planning

Brazilian 91 % Chinese 64 %

Most Online Booking Least Online Booking

Singaporeans 64 % Chinese 14 %

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