COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN TOURISM INDUSTRY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0139 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN TOURISM INDUSTRY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR ÇAĞDAŞ SUNNA

Offered to

Tourism and Hotel Management
Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Civil Aviation and Cabin Services
Civil Aviation Transportation Management
Food Technology

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to understand the relationship between tourism and information technology, to examine information technologies widely used in tourism industry, to discuss current trends in tourism technology and to gain competencies in information technologies in tourism industry.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define information technology terminology.
2   Understand the relationship between tourism and information technologies.
3   Illustrate the applications of information technologies in tourism industry.
4   Explains how information technologies will be applied to a problem in tourism industry.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts related to information technologies
2 Tourism industry and the use of information technologies
3 Strategic role of information technologies in tourism industry
4 Tourism information systems
5 Tourism information systems
6 Tourism web 1.0, web 2.0, web 3.0, web 4.0 and semantic web
7 Tourism web 1.0, web 2.0, web 3.0, web 4.0 and semantic web
8 Mid-term exam
9 Mobile applications in the tourism industry
10 Big data in tourism industry
11 RFID technologies in tourism industry
12 Augmented reality applications in tourism
13 Virtual reality applications in tourism
14 Smart destinations
15 Robotic applications in tourism industry
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Ralph M. Stair 2018, Fundamentals of Information Systems, 9th Edition Ed., Cengage [ISBN: 97813370990]
Paul Bocij, Andrew Greasley, Simon Hickey 2015, Business Information Systems, Technology, Development & Management for the e-business, 5th Edition Ed., Pearson Education Limited Harlow, England [ISBN: 978-027373645]
A.Öğüt, H.K.Güleş, A.Ş.Çetinkaya (2003). Bilişim Teknolojileri Işığında Turizm Işletmelerinde Yönetim -Enformatik Bir Bakış-, Nobel Yayıncılık.
Werthner ve Klein (1999). Information Technology and Tourism: A Challenging Relationship, Springer.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, preparation about subject, in- class practices

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is imperative to attend %70 of the courses and fulfill the requirements of the course.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gamze.ozogul@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparation about subject 14 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
In-class practices 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455

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