In 2014 ENTER brings together the research community and the industry in Dublin between January 21-24 and offers a fantastic programme centred around the opportunities and challenges within the social inspiration context.

ENTER 2014, which is organised by the International Federation of Information Technology in Travel and Tourism (IFITT), offers a unique forum for attendees from industry, academia, government, and other organisations to actively exchange, share, and challenge the state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.

Following its main theme ‘Where Social Inspiration Meets Dynamic eTourism Innovation’, the 21st  version of the ENTER conference is aimed at discovering the opportunities and challenges with the social inspiration context, exploring technology concepts, applications and business models in travel and tourism.

The comprehensive programme of the conference contains a range of interesting presentations that will be organised in three streams: ‘research focus’, ‘destination focus’ and ‘industry and innovation focus’. These will be underlined by several main topics, such as:

• Social Networking, Social Media and Social Inspiration
• Context and Location Based Services
• Augmented Reality and Gaming
• Advanced Distribution Systems
• Electronic Marketing and Analytics
• Big data and Cloud computing
• Information Interfaces and Presentation
• Crisis and eTourism
• ICT Adoption, Use, and Value Creation
• Intelligent Systems
• Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
• Website Design and Evaluation
• E-Learning and distributed learning
• Cultural Heritage and Sustainability
• Mobile Services
• Context-Aware Systems
• E-strategy and e-Business models
• Recommender Systems

Information about the speakers and a presentation schedule will be announced soon, but a preliminary program can already be obtained from http://www.enter2014.org/Conference-59.htm.

If you would like to attend the conference please register on the website (http://www.enter2014.org/Registration-64.htm). Discounts are offered to members of IFITT and its partners as well as for students and academics.

For more information please contact: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis (IFITT President) at ifitt@ifitt.org or dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk.