The diffusion of disrupting innovations has generated significant market changes, modifying the dominant logic. This structural change is affecting the organizational networks and the services tourism players are supposed to use to perform well in markets (and be efficient). This disruptive change affects the whole tourism and hospitality industry: relationships between players change as their respective roles change; this is driven by e-commerce / e-business and disruptive innovation. For instance hotels, thanks to e-business technological platforms, can now use algorithms to set yield and revenue management strategies, monitor competition in real time and allow consumers to use mobile devices to access several services.

The major topics of interest focus on disruptive innovation and their role within the Tourism experience and industry. They include but are not limited to:

• Structural changes to the industry (e.g.: dematerialization, smartness, new forms of accommodations, disruptive technologies, mobile, etc.)
• New market structures and network relations as well as new roles of tourism players
• Diffusion issues
• Operators’ challenges (e.g.: forecasting the future demand, aggregations, smart statistics to support change, identifying competitor set)
• Incremental innovation versus disruptive innovation (e.g., going beyond traditional business, traditional markets exploring not well understood problems)
• How smart and connected products are transforming competition
• Contextual issues (sectorial differences as well as regional differences; competition vs oligopoly)

Papers are required no later than June 30th 2016
Notification of outcome will be provided by August 30th 2016
Final papers should be submitted by October 15th 2016

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