Social computing in tourism websites

The rapid growth of user-generated content on the Internet represents a great potential in deploying social computing tools to enrich communication and collaboration among different stakeholders in the tourism industry. The purpose of this paper is to address two research questions pertaining to tou...

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Main Author: Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98778
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-987782020-03-07T12:15:49Z Social computing in tourism websites Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (6th : 2012 : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) The rapid growth of user-generated content on the Internet represents a great potential in deploying social computing tools to enrich communication and collaboration among different stakeholders in the tourism industry. The purpose of this paper is to address two research questions pertaining to tourism websites: (1) how prevalently are social computing tools used? (2) In what ways have social computing tools been used? A total of 90 tourism-related websites was randomly drawn from Asia, American and Europe for analysis. The findings reveal that the order of prevalence among the different social computing tools is as follows: social tagging services, blogs, mashup, RSS and multimedia sharing services. This paper examines the use of various social computing tools and concludes with three limitations as well as recommendations for further research. 2013-07-31T03:10:43Z 2019-12-06T19:59:34Z 2013-07-31T03:10:43Z 2019-12-06T19:59:34Z 2012 2012 Conference Paper Chua, A. Y. K. (2012). Social computing in tourism websites. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication - ICUIMC '12. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98778 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12547 10.1145/2184751.2184874 en
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description The rapid growth of user-generated content on the Internet represents a great potential in deploying social computing tools to enrich communication and collaboration among different stakeholders in the tourism industry. The purpose of this paper is to address two research questions pertaining to tourism websites: (1) how prevalently are social computing tools used? (2) In what ways have social computing tools been used? A total of 90 tourism-related websites was randomly drawn from Asia, American and Europe for analysis. The findings reveal that the order of prevalence among the different social computing tools is as follows: social tagging services, blogs, mashup, RSS and multimedia sharing services. This paper examines the use of various social computing tools and concludes with three limitations as well as recommendations for further research.
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