e-Consumers in the Era of New Tourism, 1st ed. 2016 Managing the Asian Century Series

This book focuses on the role of e-consumers and e-marketing in the era of new tourism. It addresses themes such as the tourism "prosumer" at work, the evolution of tourism services, the collaboration and co-creation, as well as the e-complaint behavior of e-consumers in tourism. It also discusses topics such as mobile marketing, gamification as a marketing communication tool, the impact of social media on tourism consumers, and the use of e-loyalty programs in the accommodation sector. Students taking e-marketing and market research courses in tourism can use this work as a source book for the principles of new marketing management. e-Consumers in the Era of New Tourism serves as a helpful resource for practitioners, as well as researchers and students of e-marketing.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Consumer Metamorphosis in the Digital Age.- Chapter 2: Mobile Communication and Applications in Tourism.- Chapter 3: Usage of E-loyalty Programs in Hospitality Industry.- Chapter 4: New Toy of Marketing Communication in Tourism: Gamification.- Chapter 5: The Symbolic Representation of Tourism Destinations: A Semiotic Analysis.- Chapter 6: Customer Decision on Hotel Booking via Mobile Phone Applications: A Case Study of Luxury Hotels in Bangkok.- Chapter 7: MoViT: A 3D Mobile Virtual Tour App of Panguil River Eco-Park.- Chapter 8: Marketing for new tourism perceived by East-Asian e-consumers. 

Erkan Sezgin, PhD. received his graduate and PhD degrees from the Tourism Management faculty of Anadolu University. Erkan Sezgin specializes in information communication technology applications concerning tourism, as well as the travel business and airline industry. His research, consisting mainly of journal articles and conference papers, focuses on corporate branding and information technologies, primarily of travel and airline companies. He is currently Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Tourism in the Faculty at Anadolu University.