Multicriteria Evaluation of the Websites of Alternative Tourism Enterprises: Case Study in the Region of Crete

  • Christiana Koliouska*
  • , Zacharoula Andreopoulou
  • , Michalis Doumpos
  • , Emilios Galariotis
  • , Constantin Zopounidis
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Alternative tourism has gained considerable interest among consumers and enterprises in the tourism sector, creating new opportunities for providing high quality and innovative tourist services, while contributing to sustainable development. The Internet plays a key role as a tool for promoting alternative tourism. Motivated by this, this article presents an original research on the evaluation of the content features of the websites of enterprises involved with alternative tourism services in the region of Chania, Greece. The sample consists of 28 websites evaluated over 11 performance criteria through the ELECTRE III multicriteria method. The websites are ranked in a benchmarking context and the results of the evaluation are used to identify the most successful practices, as well as the website features that require improvements for the enterprises to take advantage of the opportunities that arise in the new era of technological innovation in the tourism sector.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2233-2240
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Volume70
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2023

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Keywords

  • Alternative tourism
  • information and communication technologies (ICTs)
  • multicriteria decision analysis
  • website evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Strategy and Management
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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