As we know, 2014 is the year of “Visit Malaysia” for our country. “Visit Malaysia” is the nation biggest and grandest tourism celebration with Malaysia Truly Asia’s endless wonders of event, festivals and activities all-year round. Visit Malaysia Year (VMY) was first launched in 1990 with theme “Fascinating Malaysia, Year of Festival”. The campaign was a huge success with Malaysia charting 7.4 million in tourist arrivals compared to 4.8 million in 1989. To enable tourist recognize Malaysia, the “Orang Utan”, the endangered species found in east Malaysia was used as a mascot and it named “Wira”. This year, 2014, Malaysia will celebrate its fourth Visit Malaysia year with the theme “Celebrating 1Malaysia Truly Asia” to reflect diversity in unity of all Malaysians and proboscis Monkey has been chosen as the mascot.
These papers purpose the limitation and shortcoming on research agenda in tourism sector. In subfield artificial intelligent, we learn about intelligent agent that create a machine that can act and think like human, also machine that can act and think rationally. Current research that we study about is information technology in hospitality industry. These researches are to find the limitation of information technology in hospitality industry especially in tourism. It is because, in tourism, hospitality is the most important needs by the tourist to get the correct information about some interesting place. Within the limitation, we also will provide some shortcoming for further research agenda in tourism.
Information technology is the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data. First known the use of information technology is in 1978. According to the articles that we read, Information Technology &Tourism (ITT) is the first scientific interdisciplinary articles focusing on the nature and role of information technology within
References: O’ Connor. Peter,Ph.D. & Jamie Murphy, Ph.D. A review on Information Technology in the hospitality industry. Retrieved from http://www.researchgate.net/publication/222665730_Research_on_information_technology_in_the_hospitality_industry/file/5046352a0056de70ca.pdf Information Technology & Tourism. Retrieved from https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fbusiness%2B%2526%2Bmanagement%2Fbusiness%2Binformation%2Bsystems%2Fjournal%2F40558&ei=JaF1U6C_DMq8uASAwYHYCg&usg=AFQjCNFSL7TuYReyQ1FRUDhLcJiD47uVNg Laura Schneider, Information Technology-Definition and History. Retrieved from http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology/p/ITDefinition.htm