The New Landscape of Travel: A Comprehensive Analysis of Smartphone Apps
Published 1 January 2012
Dan Wang, Zheng Xiang
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The results identify the range of iPhone apps from both the developers’ and users’ perspectives and serves as an important foundation for understanding the emerging technological environment that will cause substantial change in travel and tourism.
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Due to the increasing popularity of smartphones and their apps, mobile technologies have been effectively changed the nature of travel. This study employed a data mining approach to classify the types of information services and design features of travel-related iPhone apps as well as users' evaluation and reviews of these apps. The results identify the range of iPhone apps from both the developers' and users' perspectives. This study documents the state-of-theart of mobile technologies and serves as an important foundation for understanding the emerging technological environment that will cause substantial change in travel and tourism.
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