Destination Information Systems: Design Issues and Directions

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-176

  Chen, Hong Mei ^a,b,c,d   Sheldon, Pauline J ^e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d IEEE   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f Soc of Travel and Tourism Educators   (United States)

^g Travel and Tourism Res Association

Author keywords

Cooperative interorganizational systems; Destination information systems; Heterogeneous distributed databases; IS design issues; Metadatabase; Multimedia information management; Strategic information systems; Tourism; Travel industry; Virtual integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288356     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1997.11518169     Document Type: Article

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