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An Actor Network Perspective of Tourism Open Data

Tourism and Hospitality Management

ISBN: 978-1-78635-714-4, eISBN: 978-1-78635-713-7

Publication date: 15 September 2016

Abstract

This chapter explores the data exchange relationships between stakeholders in a tourism domain as a means of assessing the potential application of open data initiatives. Social network analysis is utilized to analyze network relationships and explain the pattern and consequences of these relationships. Based on centrality and other network attributes, the analysis highlights the key influencers in the tourism data ecosystem examined, and suggests that initial steps towards implementing a tourism open data policy should focus on opening up tourism asset data, and relaxing current restrictive data exchange practices. The agency with responsibility for collecting and disseminating tourism asset data, is well positioned to become the data broker in an emergent tourism open data ecosystem.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the following Organizations for their responsiveness and engagement in supporting the study: Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB); Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCO); Tourism Enhancement Fund; Jamaica Association of Villas and Apartments (JAVA); Jamaica U-Drive Association/Jamaica Rent-A-Car Association; Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA); and Countrystyle Community Tourism Network (CCTN). This study was undertaken with the kind support and funding from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and W3C Brazil as part of the Open Data for Development project in Latin America & the Caribbean (OD4D).

Citation

McNaughton, M., McLeod, M.T. and Boxill, I. (2016), "An Actor Network Perspective of Tourism Open Data", Tourism and Hospitality Management (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1871-317320160000012005

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