The Nature and Impact of Consumption of ICTs by Tourists in Dublin.

      Аннотация: While the consumption of various tourism products, as well as the consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by tourists during the holidays planning process have been widely studied over the past years, very little is known about the ICTs consumption by tourists in the actual tourist destination. Therefore, this paper aimed to investigate the nature and impact of the use of such technologies by young adults tourists specifically using Dublin city centre as research sampling field. The author uses a survey questionnaire in order to obtain a research data necessary for hypotheses testing, and therefore to address the research objectives. The major implication of this research is the fact that there is no further need for tourism practitioners and researchers to focus on the young adults tourists’ demographics and their travel activities as these two variables are not of importance in understanding consumption of ICT services in destination.

Ключевые слова: communication, information technologies, Tourism, marketin, g management, tourist customer, behaviour technology