MCI | The Entrepreneurial School, Depts. Management, Communication & IT, Digital Business & Software Engineering, Universitaetsstrasse 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Dr. Peter Mirski
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School, Depts. Management, Communication & IT, Digital Business & Software Engineering, Universitaetsstrasse 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
“Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they ...
With the rising demand for personal information, touristic websites and service providers collect and increasingly depend on the willingness of tourists’ private data disclosure. While legislation slowly provides directions for data collection practices, tourists remain wary on which and how much data they should or have to provide to organize their visit in a tourism destination. Our qualitative study explores this domain holistically and lays out four boundary evaluations: blurred, but clear view, positive incentives, subjective well-being, and restraining factors on how tourists evaluate their willingness to disclose personal information to a destination. By drawing upon and substantiating theory of information privacy behavior, we contribute to the field of personal information sharing in the tourism domain by expanding and coloring the complexities of tourists’ expectations, intentions, and boundaries.