Information Technology In The Tourism Government
Involving information and communication technology on a range of modern methods and techniques used to simplify a particular activity and lifting tool, a group gathered the necessary equipment to process information and circulation of computers and software and hardware for saving and retrieving and electronic transport across wired and wireless means of communication in all its forms and different kinds: written, audio and video, which enables two-way communication and teamwork and provide transmission of the message from the sender to the recipient; through closed networks and open; and globalization has allowed information and communication technology to benefit from services a four-Twenty hours (24 h / 7 days), from any point on earth, especially with the spread of electronic financial settlement of transactions on Line.
Nowadays technology involves every aspects of life. One of these aspects is tourism. People who work in tourism sector use technology to execute their work. Technology helps to distribute information about different places for tourism. Tourists can gain information from the internet and know the accurate things to decide the best places to visit. Technology makes the work easier related to the tourists need like hiring cars, getting rooms and tickets. It becomes very easy register your information online. Tourists will have more time to enjoy themselves because their information has been already registered online. Tourism use technology to make records about their usual customers to know their favorite food, places and activities to attract them to come again.
Briefly this issue will discuss the concept of Information technology in tourism industry and will cover those main points:
Concept of information technology.
E-Government.
Information Technology and Tourism.
E-Tourism.
The importance of e-tourism and its impact on national economy.
Tourism applications.
Government internet website
Information Technology?
Information technology mean possessed the manufacture and storage and dissemination of information by a microelectronics-based computing and communications. When we say Information technology that means, computer programming, internet, computer engineering, and technician and so on. All of that make big change in tourism industry so; the government should use this technology to be number one in this sector.
E-Government:
The common definition of e-government as a network of computer systems that enable public access to a large number of government services and transactions automated, online or through other electronic letters . The intellectual and political content of the e-government, and historical and cultural context that led to it.
The concept e-government integrated mean the effective use of all information and communication technologies in order to facilitate the daily administrative operations of the government sectors.
We can say in light of the foregoing that the electronic government in terms of the concept is: the environment where it is information be for all by easy way
IT and Tourism:
Because the tourism industry is rapidly changing and evolving. It was necessary to use information technology to keep pace with the evolution in the world and is noted on this basis that the tourism market has been affected a lot of this technology over recent years has been known an exponential growth in e-tourism Through the Internet.
The countries which used the e-government and considering tourism as one of main economic recourse faces to use technology in this sector and this helped to appearance of the concept of E-Tourism.
E-Tourism:
Appeared a few years ago the concept of e-tourism, and dealt with many international organizations of different applications and their impact on increasing tourism growth, especially in least developed countries, which constitute the tourism revenues, a large proportion of GDP. Has contributed to further spread the concept and applications of various factors such as high proportion of the contribution of e-tourism in the total international e-commerce, and the resulting integration of this concept in the institutional structures of the bodies involved in tourism from the reduction in the cost of tourism services provided and thus prices, and the development of tourist product submitted in the development of new touristic activities consistent with the different segments of tourists, as well as increasing the competitiveness of tourism enterprises, and the consequent increase in the value added of the tourism sector in the national economy.
We can say the e-tourism is “Pattern of tourist transactions are executed through the use of information and communication technology.
The importance of e-tourism and its impact on national economy
The importance of e-tourism, which provided huge benefits for both providers of tourism services for tourists or tourists themselves , which contribute to overcome traditional barriers in the typical tourist transactions, and most important of these benefits :
1. Facilitate the provision of information, which depends on tourism industry.
When we use the technology it is will be easy to get information about tourism destination.
2. Reduce the cost of tourism services provided.
Because the services provided online with lees price and time .
3. Ease of product development, tourism and the emergence of new tourism activities in accordance with the different segments of tourists.
That happen when we use the technology to know what tourists need and what his her opinion about certain destination.
4. Increase the competitiveness of tourism enterprises.
That depends for how we use the Information technology in our work .
All of that helped to increase the benefit of tourism in national income so; the use of information technology is strategic choice and necessary.
Tourism applications:
Before tock about tourism applications in IT sector we should know who use the IT. In general we can divide them to four groups which are:
Tourists:,
Travel agents.
Service providers..
Tourism offices.
In tourism we use information technology in airlines, hotels, car rent, Tourism offices and travel agencies.
The government use information technology in several way s for example, marketing research, promotional plan and exchange the information between the countries and so on.
Also the government use computers, Mobil phones, and satellites to control and administration the staff and the process in easy ways.
Government Internet Website
It is the biggest and useful part of information technology and the government use it to promotional the country and market it in good ways.
This website provides all information for all and it easy to access and get what you want about the country so, that will be increase the number of visitor.
Moreover the government uses the internet to provide direct services like, reservation, tickets and other things.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, I can say the information technology effect the tourism industry in different ways and change day by day. Also the exact impacts are far from clear, the future of e-tourism. In the end of this report we can see the important of information technology in tourism sector and who it is affect it. In my opinion the information technology becomes the important issue and I have the right to say no live without information technology.
