InnoTourism 2017 - 2017 EAI International Conference on Innovations and small business in tourism

Topical Scope
Primary topic:
1. IT innovations in tourism and opportunities for small businesses. The role of IT innovations for internationalisation of tourism markets.
Secondary topics:
2. Product/service innovations in tourism sector
3. Managerial innovations in small tourism business (modern methods for budget, revenue management and price-control; modern database management systems (whether for accounting; tax; customer support, etc.)
3. Staff related innovations in small tourism firms (staff training, work reload, work flexibility, etc.)
4. Organisational innovations (strategy, structure, networking, cooperation, etc.)
5. Marketing innovations (market surveys; new distributional channels; online marketing, etc.)
6. Policy for innovative tourism development and the future of small businesses
7. Disruptive innovations in tourism (changes and impact on competition, challenges for SME’s, disruptive technologies, mobile, contextual issues etc.)
8. Adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics by tourist companies