Digital economy and tourism impacts, influences and challenges

AbstractDigital economy is based on electronic goods and services produced by an electronic business and traded through electronic commerce, a business with electronic production and management processes and that interacts with its partners and customers and conducts transactions through Internet and Web technologies. With growing population and resource mobilization, digital economy is not limited to business trading and services effecting on every aspect of life from health to education and from business to banking. Many observers have noted the rapid growth of the broadly defined digital economy. Much attention is being paid to the ongoing and dramatic growth in electronic or e-commerce. In spite of its rapid growth in recent years, we view the emergence of e-commerce as an important trend that is only part of the more general changing structure of the economy brought on by the dramatic changes in information technology (IT).The main purpose of this paper is to show the digital economy effects on tourism industry through Internet and Web technologies