Clark Hu

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper defined smart tourism as an individual tourist support system within the context of information services and an all-encompassing technology, and compared the characteristics of both traditional tourist information service and those incorporated in smart tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extended TAM (technology acceptance model) is adopted to explain the mechanism by which social media marketing influences attitudes toward Facebook event pages, and the authors find that users' emotions exhibited on the Facebook event page do have a significant impact on the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived enjoyment of such social media advertising.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate seniors' affect and travel motivation as well as interrelationships between these two constructs and discover the effects of affect and motivation on travel intentions of seniors aged 65 or greater.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply social network analysis on co-authorship data obtained from top three tourism journals to explore the patterns of collaborations in tourism research community and reveal that even though the tourism researcher network is large and complex, it is dispersed in the form of several core groups of researchers who sometimes act as nodes in the network.

TL;DR: Based on the co-authorship data from recent journal publications over a period of five years, the authors applied social network analysis to explore the network structures and identify their network properties in the hospitality research domain.