ENTER2018 eTourism Conference took place in Sweden – Jönköping (January 24-26, 2018). The event was held at Elmia Congress center, and has attracted 250+ delegates from 30 countries, both with industry/destination as well as with academic backgrounds.

• ENTER2018 eTourism Main Conference and PhD Workshop programs
• Pictures of the event in the IFITT Twitter page or by searching the hashtag #ENTER2018
• PhD workshop proceedings
• Short papers, published as a special issue of the e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR) (available soon)
• Presentations from the conference are available online on the SlideShare account of IFITT
• ENTER conference proceedings – Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018. Editors: Brigitte Stangl & Juho Pesonen (*IFITT members benefit from free access through members area) and ENTER2018 abstacts
• IFITT Award winners
• IFITT Press Release: New Board 2018 

ENTER conference offered a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from industry, academia, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.

While ENTER2018 theme was “eTourism: Sustaining Culture and Creativity”, the following topics were discussed during the conference:

• E-strategy and e-Business models
• Platform Economy
• Advanced Distribution Systems and Strategies, Dynamic Packaging
• ICT-enabled Partnership and Collaboration
• ICT for Innovation and Service Design
• E-Learning, life-long learning, and MOOCs
• ICT for Regional Development and Sustainability
• Legal and Social Aspects of ICT
• E-Government and public policy in tourism
• Digital Divide and Socio-economic development
• Privacy and Internet Security
• Semantic Web
• Privacy and Data Security
• Big Data, Measurement, Text Mining and Analytics
• Mobile Services and Wearable Technologies
• Location-based Services and Context-Aware Systems
• Internet-of-Things and Smart Destinations
• Travel Information Search and Retrieval
• Quantified Self
• Geospatial Web
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotics
• Blockchain Technology
• Gaming, Gamification, Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Website Design and Evaluation
• E-Marketing and Social Media Strategies
• Social Networking, Social Media, and Social Inspiration
• ICT and Tourism Experience
• ICT Adoption, Use, and Value Creation

ENTER2018 Conference Chairs

Overall Chairs:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Fuchs, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
Prof. Dr. Marianna Sigala, University of South Australia, Australia

Research Track Chairs:

Dr. Brigitte Stangl, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Dr. Juho Pesonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Industry Track Chair:

Dr. Jean-Claude Morand, Cyberstrat.net, France
Steve Hood, STR., USA

Destination Track Chair:

Paul Baron, Visit Victoria, Australia
Dr. Eduardo Santander, European Travel Commission, Belgium
Dr. Isaac Mizrachi, City of Tel Aviv, Israel

PhD Workshop Chairs:

Dr. Iis Tussyadiah, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Dr. Lidija Lalicic, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Dr. Estela Marine-Roig, University of Lleida, Spain

IFITT President: Lorenzo Cantoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
IFITT General Secretary: Emanuele Mele, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
IFITT Junior Online Communications Officer: Faith C. Chilombo, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland