Technologies in Tourism Services

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Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge: The student will know and understand to applicate the information technologies in the toruism offer tourism services by tourism services.
Competences: The student will be able to applicate information technologies by the management of the basic and additional services with the accent on accommodation and catering facilities in accommodation and catering facilities but for other enterprises which offer tourism services connected with tourism and they cooperate.
Skills: The student will gain skills to use tourism information technologies and will master the basics of the specialized software Opera. Student will be able to work with the terminology in English language, which is the basic communication language in all hotel systems.

Indicative content

The content of the subject Technologies in Tourism Services is concentrated on the application of the information technologies in tourism services.
The subject offers acquaintance with the information technologies and their applications in tourism services Use of applications and technologies for the smart solutions with the accent for use of the software system Opera.

Support literature

Základná literatúra:
1. Novacká, Ľudmila a kol. Súčasnosť cestovného ruchu v trajektórii budúcnosti. Zlín: Radim Bačuvčík - VeRBuM, 2020, 370 s. ISBN 978-80-88356-05-9.
Odporúčaná literatúra:
1. Benckendorff, Pierre - Xiang, Zheng - Sheldon, Pauline. Tourism Information Technology. Boston: CABI, 2019, 401 p. ISBN 9781786393432
2. Gajdošík, Tomáš - Gajdošíková, Zuzana - Marčeková, Radka. Informačné technológie v cestovnom ruchu. Bratislava : Walters Kluwer, 2017, 208 s. ISBN 9788081685873.
3. Kóňa, Jakub - Frasch, Alexander - Luptáková, Anabela. Ekonomické aspekty ubytovania Airbnb a ich vplyv na miestne obyvateľstvo: Economic Aspects of Airbnb Accommodation and Their Impact on the Local Population. Ekonomika cestovného ruchu a podnikanie: vedecký časopis Obchodnej fakulty Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave, 2022, 14(2), pp.64-70.
4. Kubičková, Viera - Benešová, Dana. Inovácie v cestovnom ruchu: prípadové štúdie, České Budějovice: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, 2023, 119 s. ISBN 978-80-7556-117-6
5. Stienmetz, Jason - Ferrer-Rossel - Berta, Massimo, David. Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, 507 p. ISBN 9783030947507

Syllabus

1/ Information technologies – Information and communication. The need of information technologies by the creation of tourism offer, sale support and final sale. The tourism itineraries by the selected criteria with the accent on their content concentration. 2/ Indoor museums and their presentation by the determination. World and Slovak republic most important museums and galleries. The visitors, numbers and segmentation. Electronic communication with the client. 3/ Adventure tourism navigation systems for the adventure tourism, diving and geo cashing. The attraction discovery online games in the destination. 4/ The domestic and foreign fair trades areas by the example of tourism fair trades. The selected fair trade case study. The online offer of the product, B2B communication with the potential business partners, presentation, communication, distribution. 5/ The catering, nutrition, intolerance of the clients to selected ingredients. The nutrition software Planeat.sk and Mountberry.sk 6/ The catering software system for the coffeeshop and restaurant. The basic simulation of the operation in the coffeeshop and restaurant on the side of the producer by the catering software Blue Gastro. 7/ The Slovak and foreign accommodation facilities divided by selected criteria. The online presentation and distribution by the own web page. The hotel chain web page and distribution portal Booking.com and Trivago.com. 8/ OPERA – The employees flexible user rights in software system OPERA. The job position attribution. 9/ Opera – The property management system of accommodation facilities in selected enterprise. Vertical and horizontal structure in hotel enterprise, mutual relations. 10/ OPERA – Reservation system in the hotel enterprise and in every hotel. The individual and group client segmentation. 11/OPERA – Customer profile. Characteristics, tasks, inclusion, history, notices. 12/ OPERA – Revenues – paid, unpaid, invoices, financial transactions. 13/ OPERA – Housekeeping – booked rooms, disponible rooms (free rooms, cleaned rooms) uncleaned rooms.

Requirements to complete the course

20 % Continual written work
20 % Semester work
60 % Oral exam

Student workload

Working load: 156 hours
Participation on the lectures: 26 hours
Participation on exercises: 26 hours
Preparation for the exercises: 16 hours
Processing of the semester project: 20 hours
Preparation for the written verification of the knowledge: 20 hours
Preparation for the examination: 48 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, English

Date of approval: 06.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 03.03.2024