Models for evaluating tourism websites

This paper reviews tourism studies that pertain to methodological approaches to website evaluation of tourism websites, in order to make future judgement analysis of tourism websites. Although, it is difficult to make a systematic and complete evaluation on websites, they are quality due to their di...

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Main Author: Bonjisse, Brito José (author)
Other Authors: Morais, Elisabete Paulo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/14749
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/14749
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Summary:This paper reviews tourism studies that pertain to methodological approaches to website evaluation of tourism websites, in order to make future judgement analysis of tourism websites. Although, it is difficult to make a systematic and complete evaluation on websites, they are quality due to their diversity of functionalities, which make them complex to analyses. Many studies have proposed new website evaluation frameworks and criteria. The research attempted to understand and improve website evaluation based on models related to the tourism websites. Through those models, the research proposed a new model based on the previous models discussed on this paper.The method used in the research was qualitative approach like reading journals, books, papers, interpreing phenomena and virtual research by Internet, and according to the findings this analysis found that websites should look on the ergonomics recommendations.