Progress in airline distribution systems: The threat of new entrants to incumbent players

Sismanidou, Athina; Palacios, Miguel; Tafur, Javier

doi:10.3926/jiem.2009.v2n1.p251-272

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“…The challenges stated in the table were also based on the results of the field study and the literature. The first challenge is based on the results of the studies of Davidson, 2001;Prideaux, 2001;Garkavenko, 2007 andSismanidou et al, 2009. The third challenge is supported by the study of Chiu et al (2015).…”

Section: Opportunities and The Challenges Facing Tourism "Intermediarmentioning

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Exploring the Impact of E-Marketplaces on Egyptian Tourism Intermediaries

Taha¹,

Hilaly²,

Rouby³

2019

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality

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More people are globally becoming attracted to buying and selling products and services via the internet as the Internet is offering a vast opportunity and an easy way to book packages, search for information and get reviews about services through Customer Generated Content (CGC). It is claimed that both suppliers and consumers are working to push the intermediaries out of the value chain; in order to reduce the costs. The Egyptian tourism market is based on the relation between the three main partners in the supply chain: service providers "upstream partners", tourism intermediaries "downstream partners" and customers. Tourism intermediaries, symbolized in tour operators and travel agencies in Egypt, represent the main partners responsible for marketing and distributing the tourism services. Thereupon, it was of great importance to analyze the current and future situation of those intermediaries, especially in the massive changes resulted from the emergence of the e-marketplaces in the Egyptian tourism market. The study aims at answering some research questions in order to decide which scenario will take place for Egyptian tourism intermediaries amidst the new changes: Disintermediation, Re-intermediations or Cybermediation. A qualitative research approach was used to answer the research questions. In-depth interviews with Egyptian Tourism Intermediaries, represented in traditional Travel Agents (TAs) in Egypt, Egyptian Online TAs (OTAs) and Egyptian Facebook Travel Agencies were conducted to explore the effect of the e-marketplaces on their work. The results showed that the Egyptian intermediaries were greatly affected by the emergence of emarketplaces and are taking serious steps to counteract the disintermediation effect to reintermediate in the market. This was accomplished by introducing innovative products, forming alliances, offering niche products and adopting price differentiation strategies. The study also provides recommendations for stakeholders in the tourism industry to help them in persisting within the changes of e-marketplaces.

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Section: Opportunities and The Challenges Facing Tourism "Intermediarmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Impact of E-Marketplaces on Egyptian Tourism Intermediaries

Taha¹,

Hilaly²,

Rouby³

2019

International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality

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“…Originally, travel service providers, such as airlines or hotels, used global distribution systems to combine their offered services to travel agencies. Global distribution systems required high investments due to their technical complexity and physical dimensions as they were mainframe-based infrastructure; this generated the monopoly of a few companies that charged a high rate to the travel services providers in order to offer their services to the travel agencies [52]. With this traditional model, customers could purchase travel provider services directly at their offices or through a travel agent.…”

Section: Web Search Business Case 1: Travel Servicesmentioning

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Neural Networks in Big Data and Web Search

Serrano

2018

Data

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As digitalization is gradually transforming reality into Big Data, Web search engines and recommender systems are fundamental user experience interfaces to make the generated Big Data within the Web as visible or invisible information to Web users. In addition to the challenge of crawling and indexing information within the enormous size and scale of the Internet, e-commerce customers and general Web users should not stay confident that the products suggested or results displayed are either complete or relevant to their search aspirations due to the commercial background of the search service. The economic priority of Web-related businesses requires a higher rank on Web snippets or product suggestions in order to receive additional customers. On the other hand, web search engine and recommender system revenue is obtained from advertisements and pay-per-click. The essential user experience is the self-assurance that the results provided are relevant and exhaustive. This survey paper presents a review of neural networks in Big Data and web search that covers web search engines, ranking algorithms, citation analysis and recommender systems. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks and deep learning in learning relevance and ranking is also analyzed, including its utilization in Big Data analysis and semantic applications. Finally, the random neural network is presented with its practical applications to reasoning approaches for knowledge extraction.

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“…GDSs have served as the nexus of electronic commerce in travel for decades, providing virtual real-time connectivity between thousands of suppliers of travel inventory (airlines, hotels, car rental, tour operators, cruise lines, etc.) and hundreds of thousands of retail sellers of travel products (Sismanidou, Palacios & Tafur 2009). GDS facilitates the main needs of consumers for easy and transparent access to a wide range of information regarding manners of traveling, accommodation, luxury services, valid prices and the availability of these services (Sion, Mihălcescu & Mărginean, 2013).…”

Section: Online Tourist Sales and Procurementmentioning

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The role of the internet in tourism: An example from Šumadija region

Matić¹,

Vučetić²

2017

Ekonomski pogledi

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The use of the Internet for the purpose of tourist destination development and improvement of tourist companies' business is getting more and more importance every day. Bearing in mind the heterogeneous character of services necessary for tourist needs, the Internet has become an integral part of establishment, delivery, and use of tourist products. From sales, as one of the most important tourist functions, through procurement and contact with clients, to marketing, as an integrative element of all other points in a tourist destination business, the Internet plays a significant role. The use of modern technologies in online business shortens the time for certain operations and lowers the business expenses. The goal of this paper is to compare the Internet use in online business in Šumadija District and its main competitors (local and foreign). For that purpose, the following research has been conducted.

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Progress in airline distribution systems: The threat of new entrants to incumbent players

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Exploring the Impact of E-Marketplaces on Egyptian Tourism Intermediaries

Exploring the Impact of E-Marketplaces on Egyptian Tourism Intermediaries

Neural Networks in Big Data and Web Search

The role of the internet in tourism: An example from Šumadija region

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