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Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in Tourism Our book examines the concepts of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation in the tourism industry. About the authors:

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Our book examines the concepts of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation from a holistic point of view and analyzes them considering their suitability to the tourism industry. Methods, theories and models are discussed and examined regarding their practical applicability in tourism. The book illustrates the theoretical mechanisms and principles of Open Innovation, Crowdsou

rcing and Co-creation with case studies and best practices examples. In addition to the scientific target group, the book is a useful resource for managers of the entire tourism industry. First, the book presents the theoretical fundamentals and concepts in 11 specific chapters. This basis is then enriched by three parts with case studies, focusing on information, creation and provision respectively. Finally in a concluding part the editors sum up the book and give an outlook on the implications, learnings and future perspectives of open innovation, crowdsourcing and collaborative consumption in the tourism industry. Roman Egger attended the Tourism- and Hospitality Management School in Klessheim from 1989 until 1994. He graduated in Communications Sciences and gained his Doctorate from the University of Salzburg, where he specialized in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism. He worked at the Tourism Board of Salzburg as a marketer. Roman is Lecturer in eTourism at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and key researcher at the department of Innovation and Management in Tourism. Roman advises a number of national and international projects in the fields of Information Technologies in Tourism and counsels eTourism-development activities in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Egypt. He has written and co-edited nine books, published a number of articles in Books and Journals and is co-editor of the scientific Journal “Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft”. He is a Member of the International Federation of Information Technology for Travel and Tourism (IFITT), ÖGAF and DGT and AIEST. Igor Gula is a graduate of a Bachelor’s degree program in tourism business studies of the Management Center Innsbruck and of a Master’s degree program in innovation and management in tourism of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. He completed his internship in the department of Marketing New Media at the headquarters of the Casinos Austria in Vienna. Igor wrote his Bachelor thesis about the trends of the modern ICTs and their impacts on tourism, focusing on Dynamic Packaging, mTourism and Social Semantic Web. For his Master thesis he analysed the aspects of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in tourism and conducted a web-based ideas competition in cooperation with the Slovak Tourist Board. Igor is currently in charge of the corporate customer service at the Hotel Zeitgeist Vienna and also studies business administration at the MODUL University in Vienna. Dr. Dominik Walcher is the Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. Since March 2010 is as well a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston. Professor Walcher also teaches at numerous universities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Finland. He is an acclaimed speaker at conferences and founder of the “Institute of Market and Innovation Research”. His research interests are mass customization, open innovation, sustainability marketing and branding. He has published and consulted extensively. Source: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783642540882

Dear all,one of our editors, Igor Gula, handed his Master Thesis yesterday and he will shortly receive his MBA. Congratu...
26/01/2019

Dear all,
one of our editors, Igor Gula, handed his Master Thesis yesterday and he will shortly receive his MBA. Congratulations!

Dear all,Open Tourism has reached over 40 citations since its publication in 2016. Most of them are from 2018 (23). Ther...
16/12/2018

Dear all,
Open Tourism has reached over 40 citations since its publication in 2016. Most of them are from 2018 (23). Therefore we can say that the topics of OI and CS in tourism are getting more and more attention.
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24/08/2018

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Dear all,check out the new book on Advances in Social Media for Travel, Tourism and Hospitality by Marianna Sigala and U...
17/08/2018

Dear all,
check out the new book on Advances in Social Media for Travel, Tourism and Hospitality by Marianna Sigala and Ulrike Gretzel: https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Social-Media-for-Travel-Tourism-and-Hospitality-New-Perspectives/Sigala-Gretzel/p/book/9781472469205. We wish you a nice day and a wonderful weekend! ;)

This book brings together cutting edge research and applications of social media and related technologies, their uses by consumers and businesses in travel, tourism and hospitality. The first section addresses topical issues related to how social media…

Dear all,we have reached over 50.000 chapter downloads within two years of publication: http://www.bookmetrix.com/detail...
16/04/2018

Dear all,
we have reached over 50.000 chapter downloads within two years of publication: http://www.bookmetrix.com/detail_full/book/5ad6fc21-4bc5-4a6a-af23-7ddf83b2ef3a ;))
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Dear authors & supporters!The Open Tourism book has reached nearly 45,000 chapter downloads within 2 years of its public...
25/02/2018

Dear authors & supporters!
The Open Tourism book has reached nearly 45,000 chapter downloads within 2 years of its publication: http://www.bookmetrix.com/detail_full/book/5ad6fc21-4bc5-4a6a-af23-7ddf83b2ef3a - Thank you very much for all your help and support! ;))

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22/01/2018

Dear authors & supporters!
Our paper on "Open tourism: Structuring opening movements in the tourism industry using the contribution-utilization-matrix" has been published in the Journal of Tourism & Development: http://revistas.ua.pt/index.php/rtd/article/view/6747 ;)) Best regards

Open tourism: Structuring opening movements in the tourism industry using the contribution-utilization-matrix

Dear authors & supportes!We have received our first review by Simon Lei in the Journal of Information Technology & Touri...
15/12/2017

Dear authors & supportes!
We have received our first review by Simon Lei in the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT), Vol. 17, 2017: http://dblp.org/db/journals/jitt/jitt17. Dear Simon, thank you very much!

Bibliographic content of Journal of Information Technology & Tourism, Volume 17

Dear authors and supporters!We are happy to inform you that we have reached 32.5K chapter downloads since our book publi...
20/09/2017

Dear authors and supporters!
We are happy to inform you that we have reached 32.5K chapter downloads since our book publication in March 2016: http://www.bookmetrix.com/detail/book/5ad6fc21-4bc5-4a6a-af23-7ddf83b2ef3a
We thank you all for your help and support and wish you a nice as well as a successful day! ;))

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Dear friends and supporters!Enclosed you will find a nice article about the INVTUR 2017 conference at the Universidade d...
30/05/2017

Dear friends and supporters!
Enclosed you will find a nice article about the INVTUR 2017 conference at the Universidade de Aveiro. Igor was presenting our Contribution-Utilization-Matrix during the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBWqCAL7HI.

Over three hundred presentations, nine keynote speeches, hundreds of delegates – these are just some numbers summarizing the fourth annual INVTUR 2017 conference hosted by the University of Aveiro between May 17 and 19. A picturesque coastal city, known as the Venice of Portugal due to its canals an...

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