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Interdisciplinary Research on Information Science and Tourism

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Interdisciplinary research on information science and tourism plays an important role in both academic research and industry development. This paper provides a systematic review on publications both in Chinese and English in the interdisciplinary research in the last 12 years. It discusses the source authorship, numbers of the articles annually, research topics from information science and tourism research perspectives. It examines in detail three key issues: the main tourism related issues in the information science research; the main information science related issues in tourism research; and the trends of the interdisciplinary research on information science and tourism.

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41101111) and the Science and Technology Project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission (No. SQKM201211417007).

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    Nao Li & Lingyun Zhang

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Li, N., Buhalis, D., Zhang, L. (2013). Interdisciplinary Research on Information Science and Tourism. In: Cantoni, L., Xiang, Z. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36309-2_26

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