Assistant Professor of College of Hotel and Tourism Management

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

helmetgu@khu.ac.kr

Dr. Koo is an Assistant Professor in College of Hotel & Tourism Management, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is teaching Management Information Systems and Electronic Business & Commerce courses in College of Hotel & Tourism Management. He is responsible for the special issue of "Smart Tourism: Convergence of Information Technologies, Experiences, and Theories” in the Electronic Market Journal. His papers were published in the mainstream IS journals and tourism journals.

Ulrike Gretzel

Associate Professor of e Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research The University of Wollongong, Australia

Email: ugretzel@uow.edu.au

Dr. Ulrike Gretzel is an Associate Professor in Marketing, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems in Tourism (LIST), Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research (IIBSoR). Ulrike’s research focuses on persuasion in human-technology interaction, the representation of sensory and emotional aspects of tourism experiences, and issues related to the development and use of intelligent systems in tourism.  

William C. Hunter

Dr. William Cannon Hunter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Convention Management, College of Hotel and Tourism Management at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He has lived as a world citizen in Asia for 20 years. His research focuses on destination imagery, subjectivity and  problems related to cultural and touristic representations using visual and Q research methodologies. He is also interested in Smart Tourism Ecosystems related research and development.

Namho Chung

Associate Professor of College of Hotel and Tourism Management

Kyung Hee University, South Korea

nhchung@khu.ac.kr

Namho Chung is a faculty member in the College of Hotel & Tourism Management at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He received his Ph.D degree in MIS from Sungkyunkwan University. His research focuses on consumer behavior on the Internet, human computer interface, and knowledge management in the hospitality & tourism industry. His research work has been published in journals that include Information & Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Behaviour and Information Technology, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Tourism Management, International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Business Research, and Interacting with Computers.

Submission Deadlines

- Submission Deadline: 1 June 2014
- Place all articles to reviewers: 14 June 2014
- Return of all reviews: 14 July 2014
- Check 1st Decision: 21 July 2014
- Resend to authors for revisions: 3 Aug 2014
- Submission Deadline for revised version: 24 Aug 2014
- Place all articles to reviewers (2nd round): 1 Sep 2014
- 2nd round reviews in: 22 Sep 2014
- 2nd Decision: 29 Sep 2014
- Check 2nd Decision: 1 Oct 2014
- Final Decision & Notification: 11 Oct 2014