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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN ROMANIAN ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCIES
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN ROMANIAN ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCIES

Author(s): S. Mihaela Filofteia Tutunea
Subject(s): Tourism, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: digital transformation; digitization; digitalization; tourism; online travel agencies;

Summary/Abstract: New technologies have generated profound changes in the conduct of economic and individual activities; companies from all industries were forced to adapt to the multiple solutions, tools, technologies and devices made available to individuals by the IT&C industry; the need to adopt new technologies by companies, generated multiple implications, challenges, but also offered multiple development opportunities for them; digitization, digitalization and finally the digital transformation of companies, has proven to become a necessity for any company, in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage; in this context, this article studies aspects related to digital transformation, from one of the industries that are the biggest adopters of new technologies, namely, that of tourism; more precisely, were explored the state, adopted solutions, encountered problems and future plans of the Romanian online tourism agencies, in their transition towards a digital transformation; results obtained from the conducted study, can constitute a valuable input both for companies in tourism and in the IT&C industry, as well as for conducting other comparative or more complex studies.

  • Issue Year: 68/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 97-119
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English