Worksheets01Handout 1: Introduction to Tourism and Information Technology
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 27mins
One benefit of information and communications technology (ICT) in travel agencies is making it possible to store information in a data warehouse that helps develop proactive marketing tools to target individual customers with specialized products.
False
True
The intangible nature of tourism has brought the information technology and tourism industries together to market the tourism product and make it more tangible creatively.
False
True
Information and communications technologies allow customer management relations and supply chain management to be combined into a single source that facilitates various operations.
False
True
Sometimes, the tourism product is also referred to as an experience.
False
True
Information systems can be defined as the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data.
False
True
Travel products and services cannot be standardized and vary enormously.
Heterogeneity
Intangibility
Perishability
Inseparability
Unsold hotel rooms, aircraft seats, and tours cannot be stored for later sale.
Heterogeneity
Intangibility
Perishability
Inseparability
Production occurs alongside consumption. The product or service is being “consumed” as it is delivered.
Heterogeneity
Intangibility
Perishability
Inseparability
Services cannot be experienced, touched, felt, or sampled before purchase.
Heterogeneity
Intangibility
Perishability
Inseparability
Tourism includes the international movement of people on a mass scale.
Heterogeneity
Global Scope
Intagibility
Inseparability
Information technology can be defined as “the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to _____, ________, ________, and, __________ ____."
(a)
This term is defined as combinations of hardware, software, and telecommunications networks that people build and use to collect, create, and distribute useful data.
Information System
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
This role of ICT in the tourism industry involves providing unique opportunities for innovative organizations to redesign tourism products to address individual needs and satisfy consumer wants.
E-Tourism - Demand and Technology-Driven Revolution
E-Tourism - Impacts on Marketing Mix
This role of ICT in the tourism industry which have penetrated hospitality management quickly, integrating the hotel operations, reshaping the marketing function, improving total efficiency, providing tools for marketing research and partnership building, and enhancing customer services, while also providing strategic opportunities.
E-Hospitality
E-Tourism - Impacts on Marketing Mix
This role of ICT in the tourism industry which have introduced major improvements in the internal organization of travel agencies.
E-Hospitality
E-Travel Agencies
The role of the ICT in the tourism industry which the Internet revolutionizes flexibility in both consumer choice and service delivery processes.
E-Tourism - Demand and Technology-Driven Revolution
E-Travel Agencies
E-Airlines.
In the (a) , American Airlines introduced its SABRE Computerized Reservations Systems (CRS).
The role of the ICT in the tourism industry comes a destination management system (DMS) has been used to integrate the entire tourism supply at a destination.
E-Tourism - Impacts on Marketing Mix
E-Destinations
E-Tour Operators
The role of the ICTs in the tourism hospitality have penetrated hospitality management quickly, integrating the hotel operations, reshaping the marketing function, improving total efficiency, providing tools for marketing research and partnership building, and enhancing customer services, while also providing strategic opportunities.
E-Hospitality
E-Destinations
E-Tour Operators
The role of the ICTs in the tourism industry have introduced major improvements in the internal organization of travel agencies on both back and front offices.
E-Travel Agencies
E-Hospitality
E-Tourism - Demand and Technology-Driven Revolution
What is the meaning of the acronym DMS?
(a)
What is the meaning of the acronym DICIRMS?
(a)
