Itchy feet: A 3D e-tourism environment

Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities, and User Interface Design

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 209-242

  Seidel, Ingo ^a   Gärtner, Markus ^a   Pöttler, Michael ^b   Berger, Helmut ^a   Dittenbach, Michael ^a,b   Merkl, Dieter ^b  

^a Matrixware Information Services GmbH   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 74049149478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-818-5.ch013     Document Type: Chapter

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