Web map services in tourism: A framework exploring the organisational transformations and implications on business operations and models

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 415-434

  Sigala, Marianna ^a   Marinidis, Dimosthenis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business models; Geographical information systems; GIS; Operations; Organisational transformation; Tourism; Web 2.0; Web map services; WMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859397517     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2012.046293     Document Type: Article

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