This document summarizes research on digital tourism innovations among Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) and hotels in the Alpine region and Switzerland. It analyzed over 120 DMOs and 140 hotels based on criteria like videos, webcams, mobile apps, and social media usage. For DMOs, the most common criteria were newsletters, webcams, and mobile websites. Hotels commonly had booking engines, interactive maps, and voucher systems. The document highlights best practices among DMOs and hotels, including those with innovative social media, gamification, and interactive content. It concludes that digital innovations are unevenly distributed and more can be done to promote their future development.
3. Table of Contents
• Motivation
• Methodology
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Results of DMOs
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Overall view
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Innovation criteria
Best Practices
Results of Hotels
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Overall view
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Innovation criteria
Best Practices
Outlook
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4. Motivation
• Analyze the status of implementation of digital
tourism innovations
• Identify benchmarks and innovative
implementations
• Research for future digital tourism innovations for
DMOs and hotels
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5. Methodology
• Definition of criteria based on previous research
• Define Sample of Hotels and DMOs
• 120 DMO in alpine Region (CH, A, D, F)
• 140 randomly selected hotels
• Check of criteria on website (quantitative analysis)
• Research of top performers (qualitative analysis)
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6. Innovation criteria
• Inspiration
• Videos
• Webcam (360° Panorama)
• Recommender system
• Interactive Blog
• Gamification
• Virtual tour
• Social Media Feeds
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7. Innovation criteria
• Planning & Booking
• Customer reviews
• Itinerary planning tool (favorite list)
• Interactive maps
• Live chat
• Hotel booking system
• Ticket booking system
• Voucher booking system
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9. Methodology
• Definition of criteria based on previous research
• Define Sample of Hotels and DMOs
• Check of criteria on website (quantitative analysis)
• Research of top performers (quantitative analysis)
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