External factors were further divided into six categories. “User behavior” contains 16
model etc. Twenty keywords were associated with “Marketing” which included pricing, five
forces, business models, DMO marketing, eCommerce etc. “Personalization” contains
personalized electronic tourist guide and personalized tour. “Experiences” has four
keywords the tourist/user experience; “Service” includes service recovery and service
brokerage etc; and joint efforts refer to mediation, and collaborations etc. Majority of these
factors were related to customer behavior. Fig. 4 illustrated the inter-relationship among all
keywords. The diagram indicated user behavior study focused on web, mobile technology
and information search. Personalization factors focused on either information search or
mobile technology. Users’ experience and the service received affect the reviews posted on
UGC sites.
Figure 4 - Schematic of inter-relationship of keywords from top cited ENTER papers
CONCLUSIONS
With the popularity of Google Scholar (GS) and other online databases, academics can
easily obtain latest research publications from the Internet. In the past, conferences papers
could hardly be read and cited by non-conference attendees as they could not access to them.
With the increasing number of online databases, conference papers now could easily be
obtained via GS, EBCSOHost, or the publishers’ websites. With the agreed advantage of
disseminating fast and latest research findings, conferences proceeding provide an ideal
platform for academics to share knowledge and prototypes with their peers. The advent and
prevalence of conferences benefits the development of technologies related research
particularly, because technologies get changed fast so that conferences provide another
avenue for academics to share their experiment result and receive immediate feedbacks from
peers. Being one of the major IT conferences for tourism, ENTER conference played an
important role in publicizing latest research findings on eTourism. By analyzing the most
influential ENTER conference papers, findings of this study indicated even technologies
changes rapidly, good conceptual framework and models do not seem to have time limit. In
the past five years, web related topics such as web 2.0, information search and location-based
services were the hot topics in the industry. Furthermore, other than technical research
papers, majority of these top cited studies were related to customer behavior.
LIMITATIONS
This study has several limitations. As the citation data were based on the result from
Google Scholar (GS), any journals that were not open for GS indexing were excluded. The
total number of ENTER papers recorded in GS were only 738 but the total number of
ENTER is more. Using 1994 as an example, only three papers were listed in GS. Citations
information were having the same case, as many journals and conference proceedings were
not included in GS database, the total number of citations and citations per year may not be
accurate so the paper ranking in this paper may be bias. Finally, as the journal publication
peer review process is quite long, ENTER2012’s citations were not available in GS.
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