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Call for Papers ENTER 2008 In Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria will be the venue for ENTER 2008, from 23 to 25 January 2008!

Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER 2008 offers a unique forum for academics, industry and government to present and debate state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communications technologies to tourism and travel. In 2008, ENTER will celebrate its 15th anniversary of innovative thinking by returning to its roots in Innsbruck, Austria. With its high-tech conference venue, Innsbruck is easily accessible for international participants, and offers a rich cultural experience combining tradition with modern values.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited across a wide spectrum of Information and Communications Technologies applied to the travel and tourism sectors. Applied industry research is particularly welcomed. The conference proceedings (published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York) will include the full text of all accepted research papers. An award for the best research paper will also be presented during the conference.

Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations. Please refer to the ‘Author Advice’ document as a style guide for standards to follow in the preparation of manuscripts.

Submission is in the form of full papers only, which must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform (http://www.etourism-austria.at/enter) before September 7th 2007. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed on a rolling basis by the review committee. Authors should receive initial feedback by September 28th 2007 at the latest, along with a recommendation of acceptance as a full research paper or as research-in-progress. Final acceptance depends on the author responding to / adequately addressing reviewer comments to the satisfaction of the review committee. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by October 12th 2007 and must register for the conference by November 16th 2007 in order to have their work included in the Conference Proceedings.

IFITT will also continue its series of Ph.D. workshops immediately prior to the conference. Further details can be found at www.phdworkshop.org

TIME SCHEDULE
Submit full paper 7th September 2007
Submit final revised paper 12th October 2007
Final acceptance 21st October 2007
Registration Before 16th November 2007
Conference 23rd – 25th January 2008

ENTER 2008 RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS
Research Track Chair: Peter O’Connor, ESSEC Business School, France oconnor@essec.fr
Co-chair: Wolfram Hoepken, ECCA, Innsbruck, Austria
Co-chair: Ulrike Gretel, Texas A & M University, USA

ENTER 2008 RESEARCH PROGRAMME REVIEW COMMITTEE
ALFORD Philip, University of Bedfordshire, UK
BAGGIO Rodolfo, Bocconi University, Italy
BEDARD Francois, UQAM, Canada
BIEGER Thomas, St. Gallen University, Switzerland
Bonn Mark, Florida State University, USA
Böszörmenyi Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, Austria
BUHALIS Dimitrios, Bournemouth University, UK
CHOI Sunmee, Yonsei University, Korea
CHRISTOU Evangelos, University of the Aegean, Greece
COBANOGLU Cihan, University of Delaware, USA
CONNOLLY Dan, University of Denver, USA
DANIELE Roberto, Oxford Brookes University, UK
EGGER Roman, Salzburg Univesity of Applied Sciences, Austria
FESENMAIER Daniel, Temple University, USA
FREW Andrew, Queen Margaret University College, UK
FUCHS Matthias, eTourism Competence Center, Austria
GO Frank, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands
GOVERS Robert, University of Leuven, Belgium
HAM Sunny, University of Kentucky, USA
HITZ, Martin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
HOFACKER, Charles, Florida State University, USA
HU Clark, Temple University, USA
LAESSER Christian, St. Gallen University, Switzerland
LAW Rob, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
LUBBE, Berendien, Pretoria University, South Africa
MAGLOGIANNIS Ilias, University of the Aegean, Greece
MARCUSSEN Carl, Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Denmark
MATZLER Kurt, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
McGRATH Michael, Victoria University
MICH, Luisa, University of Trento
MILNE Simon, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
MINGHETTI Valeria, CISET-Ca' Foscari University, Italy
MISTILIS Nina, University of New South Wales, Australia
MURPHY Hilary, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland
MURPHY Jamie, University of Western Australia
NYHEIM Peter, Penn State University
OHUCHI Azuma, Hokkaido University, Japan
PECHLANER, Harald, European Academy of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
PETTI Claudio, S.S. ISUFI - University of Salento, Italy
RICCI Francesco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
SCHARL Arno, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
SCHEGG Roland, University of Applied Sciences Valais, Switzerland
SCHERTLER Walter, University of Trier, Germany
SHELDON Pauline, University of Hawaii, USA
SIGALA Marianna, University of the Aegean, Greece
STEINER Thomas, Swiss School of Tourism, Switzerland
STOCK Oliviero, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
TUSCH Roland, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
TJOSTHEIM Ingvar, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
VAN DER PIJL John, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
VAN HOOF Hubert, Penn State University, USA
WERTHNER Hannes, University of Innsbruck, Austria
WÖBER, Karl, Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria
XIANG Zheng (Phil), Temple University, USA
ZANKER Markus, University Klagenfurt, Austria
ZINS Andreas, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

More on the content of past ENTER proceedings on this site under Past ENTER.

Downloads:
Author Advice ENTER 2008 (application/msword, 77.3 kB)
Call for Papers ENTER 2008 (application/pdf, 112.1 kB)


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