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Relationship Between ICT and Tourism: The Case of Mediterranean Countries
Selman Bayrakcı (Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey) and Ceyhun Can Özcan (Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8165-0.ch009
Abstract
The relationship between tourism and information and communication technology (ICT) is called electronic tourism or e-tourism. The use of ICT makes markets from local to global and has a positive effect in increasing the market share of firms. Managing, planning, developing, and marketing tourism data through ICT increase the development and economic potential of tourism. ICT has provided the strategic management of all tourism-oriented companies and revolutionized the operations within the tourism distribution channel, causing tourism-related stakeholders to reassess their actions and positions. The purpose of this chapter is to reveal the relationship between ICT and tourism in the case of 14 Mediterranean countries from approximately 1995–2019. Dumitrescu and Hurlin Panel causality test was used for this analysis. The main findings indicate that ICT stimulates tourism that, in turn, boosts ICT even further in some countries (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey).