Going On-Line: The Case Of The Armidale TIC
Paul Weeks pweeks@scu.edu.au Desley
Williams
Paul Weeks says about himself:
I currently lecture in Hotel and Accommodation management at the Centre
for
Tourism, Southern Cross University.
My interest in the Internet, and
specifially in the WWW has really be 'by default' - if colleagues have a
computer problem "who're you gonna call"...usually me. So, it's
fallen to
me to attempt to keep up with the Jones (or should that be Debrecenys and
Ellises :) ) and educate colleague in the intricacies and excitement of
the 'Net. I started thinking about research in this area after contacting
a
few service providers (mainly in Europe and the US) curious to know the
level of interest from hotels and accommodation sector establishments. From
here it has grown into a discussion on conversion rates for properties
marketing their wares on the 'Net.
Desley Williams:
I have just about completed by Bachelor of Business (Tourism) degree at
Southern Cross Uni. It's been quite a struggle, being both a parent and,
at
time, an external student. This particular assignment interested me as I'm
an Armidale person and it seemed that interesting technologicval thinkgs
were about to happen in Armidale; especially through the university. I also
worked at the Visitors Centre as part of my Internship, so the two tied
in
quite nicely for the study I wanted to do.
Paul says about the Poster:
"It examines a case study of one tourist organisation and it attempt
to be
dragged (screaming?) into the current techno-age. While the case is
Australian-specific, there are broader implications for both tourism
related smaller organisations as well as other small businesses (I notice
that Paul Cragg in his poster, "WWW Adoption by
Small Firms: Research in
progress" is interested in the area of small business). The results
from
the study, conducted by a third year B. Bus (Tourism) student as a final
project assignment, provides for interesting reading."
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