Abstract
Tourism is the most popular and greatest industry in the world. This industry is also expected to be the leading industry in the 21st century, and its developing trend to be continued. Tourism is a great economic, social and environmental power and of course, it is quite a political phenomenon. Security and IT are two important and effective elements on tourism industry. Through mutual interactions, security and tourism can have improving effects or even declining effects, i.e. increasing or decreasing security shall promote or decline tourism, and vice versa. Hence, tourism has direct relations with the aspect of security. On the other hand, according to the increasing growth of the number of internet users, and since tourism industry has proper role and importance in different approaches of a country, we should use new technologies in this industry. Electronic instruments and internet have established extraordinary changes in all the chains in distributing tourism services. The aim of this article is analyzing the relation between security and IT on tourism in the city of Shiraz in Iran, and 200 questionnaires were randomly distributed between foreign tourists, who came to Shiraz during summer 2015. The research results showed that there is a positive and significant relation between IT and tourism
SEYED FATHOLLAH AMIRI AGHDAIE , MILAD KATEBI. (2016) Analyzing the Role of Information Technology (IT) and Security in Tourism Industry, International Review of Management and Business Research, Volume 5, Issue 3.
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