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    TOURISM AND TRAVEL :
    INTERNET SEARCH MEDIA SPECIFIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES : DATABASES :
    WRITING AND WRITERS:
    Tracking the Publications of a Tourism and Hospitality Scholar:
    Comparing the Output of Google Scholar and Books
    with the Search Results of Tourism Relevant Databases

    Tracking the Publications of a Tourism and Hospitality Scholar:
    Comparing the Output of Google Scholar and Books
    with the Search Results of Tourism Relevant Databases

    This post follows my post to the Trinet discussion group of professionals in
    the fields of tourism and hospitality. Dimitrios Buhalis added to the list of
    sources I shared about Intermediaries with the citation listed below to a
    publication of his own that is about this subject and is newly published.
    Dimitrios Buhalis is a very prolific author in these subject fields and I used
    this opportunity to compare results from tourism and business databases with
    those found by Google Scholar and Google Books in a response to his post sent
    to Trinet. That post, a citation to his publication and a link to my original
    post follow.

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    RE: Intermediaries (fwd)

    This post from Dimitrios Buhalis led me to an interesting idea about finding
    information regarding tourism as well as being applicable to other fields. In
    the course of my work, I have heard much from professionals in academic and
    research roles that is critical of Google as a research tool.
    These folks may view Google categorically as one entity. I did not create the
    ongoing sage of Meet the Googles because I agree with these views. I do know
    that Dimitrios Buhalis has published very extensively, so I searched his name
    in a collection of EBSCO databases.

    Research Starters - Education, Show allAcademic Search Premier, Business Source
    Premier, CAB Abstracts, EconLit, Hospitality & Tourism Complete

    Results: 1-50 of 270

    Research Starters is on trial and joins any search automatically. The number
    of citations found from this leased group of databases is 270.

    Now here is the Google Scholar result:

    Scholar All articles Recent articles Results 1 - 10 of about 364 for
    "Dimitrios Buhalis".

    But the plot thickens.

    Here are the first ten citations from the Google Scholar search results.

    Marketing the competitive destination of the future- ?surrey.ac.uk [PDF] - Find
    Full-Text @ TU D Buhalis - Tourism Management, 2000 - Elsevier Destination
    marketing is increasingly becoming extremely competitive worldwide. This paper
    explains the destination concept and attempts to synthesise several models for
    strategic marketing and management of destinations. It provides ... Cited by
    387 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions

    Strategic use of information technologies in the tourism industry-
    ?turyzm.edu.pl [PDF] - Find Full-Text @ TU D Buhalis - Tourism Management, 1998
    - Elsevier Information technologies (ITs) prevail in all functions of strategic
    and operational management. As information is the lifeblood of tourism, ITs
    provide both opportunities and challenges for the industry. Despite the
    uncertainty ... Cited by 265 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions

    [BOOK] eTourism: Information technology for strategic tourism management
    D Buhalis - 2003 - Prentice Hall
    Cited by 203 - Related articles - All 2 versions

    The future eTourism intermediaries- ?ntu.edu.tw [PDF] - Find Full-Text @ TU D
    Buhalis, MC Licata - Tourism Management, 2002 - Elsevier Hitherto, the travel
    distribution role has been performed by traditional outgoing travel agents ,
    tour operators and incoming travel agencies. They were supported by computer
    reservation systems, global distribution systems ... Cited by 140 - Related
    articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions

    Information technology in peripheral small and medium hospitality enterprises:
    strategic - ?usp.ac.fj [PDF] - Find Full-Text @ TU D Buhalis, H Main -
    International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality , 1998 - emeraldinsight.com
    Small and medium hospitality organisations (SMHOs) are increasingly recognized
    as pivotal in the ability of destinations to benefit from tourism as well as to
    satisfy tourism demand. However, it is recognized that they are often ... Cited
    by 77 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions

    Tourism distribution channels: practices, issues and transformations D Buhalis,
    E Laws - 2001 - eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk This title looks at all the issues
    involves in the distribution of the tourism product. It provides an
    international perspective, with contributors from Europe, North America and
    Australasia. Contemporary case studies are ... Cited by 66 - Related articles -
    Cached - Find Full-Text @ TU - BL Direct - All 2 versions

    Relationships in the Distribution Channel of Tourism- ?surrey.ac.uk [PDF] -
    Find Full-Text @ TU D Buhalis - International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism
    , 2000 - informaworld.com SUMMARY. This paper examines industrial relationships
    in the dis- tribution channel of tourism. Distribution becomes one of the most
    sig- nificant elements of tourism marketing as it determines all other aspects
    of the marketing ... Cited by 61 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4
    versions

    eAirlines: strategic and tactical use of ICTs in the airline industry- Find
    Full-Text @ TU D Buhalis - Information & Management, 2004 - Elsevier
    Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionised the entire
    business world. The airline industry in particular has fostered a dependency on
    technology for their operational and strategic management. Airlines were ...
    Cited by 56 - Related articles - All 7 versions

    Destination Management Systems: Criteria for Success: An Exploratory Research-
    Find Full-Text @ TU D Buhalis, A Spada - Journal of Information Technology &
    Tourism, 2008 - ojs.modul.ac.at Rapidly evolving developments in information
    technologies (ITs) transform the tourism industry to the digital economy. The
    emergence of destination management systems (DMSs) as ";info-structures";
    enables destinations to disseminate ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - Cached
    - Full Text@IngentaConnect

    [BOOK] Global alliances in tourism and hospitality management JC Crotts, D
    Buhalis, R March - 2000 - books.google.com John C Crotts Dimitrios Buhalis
    Roger March Editors Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management
    Global Alliances in Tourism and Hospitality Management has been co-published
    simultaneously as International Journal of ... Cited by 30 - Related articles -
    BL Direct - All 5 versions

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    Please note the cited by hyperlink at the bottom of each entry. Each number
    here represents one source that has cited the work in that entry by Dimitrios
    Buhalis. For just these top of the deck ten works of almost one hundred more
    found in a free database available to the whole world of internet users than
    those found through fee based EBSCO, there is a substantial body of works that
    cite those of and about Dimitrios Buhalis. For just these ten works there are
    added a group of 1,320 works that are more recent than the works cited by or
    about Dimitrios Buhalis that presumably have something to do with the topics he
    was writing about, and this is just the first ten of the over 300 works Google
    Scholar finds of this authors work or works mentioning his name and work. If
    one then performs the same search in Google Books, one finds an additional 181
    works by or about this author. Do keep in mind that finding his name in either
    EBSCO or in the Google databases does not mean that Dimitrios Buhalis is the
    author of all of the sources, in some he may be mentioned in the abstact or
    other indexed content in the databases finding his name.

    Please do not conclude that I am recommending Google Scholar and Book searches
    instead of the use of databases like those cited above. Each may have content
    the other lacks. I am, however, asserting that one can ill afford, in my
    opinion, to ignore Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Government, Google
    Images, Google Blogs and Google News Archive in their searching if they are
    seeking quality and thorough search results.

    Meet the Googles Google Search
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    Sincerely,
    David Dillard
    Temple University
    (215) 204 - 4584
    jwne@temple.edu
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    Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
    Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
    Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
    Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
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    Cited by the Author of This Work in a Trinet Post:

    Buhalis, D., Laws E., 2001, Tourism Distribution Channels: Patterns, Practices
    and Challenges, co-editor, Thomson, London, ISBN
    17th ENTER2010 - 10th-12th February 2010 @ University of Lugano Switzerland
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    > From: owner-trinet-l@HAWAII.EDU [mailto:owner-trinet-l@HAWAII.EDU] On Behalf
    > Of David P. Dillard
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:20 PM
    > Cc: trinet-l@HAWAII.EDU
    > Subject: Re: Intermediaries

    > This bibliography on the Net-Gold discussion group archives may be useful
    > to you in the provision of sources for your research regarding
    > intermediaries in tourism.

    > TOURISM AND TRAVEL :
    > BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
    > Intermediaries and Distribution Channels in the Tourism Industry:
    > A Brief and Selective Bibliography
    > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/29435>

    > WEBBIB0910

    > Sincerely,
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    > Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
    > Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
    > Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
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    > David P. Dillard
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