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Shaping digitalization among German tourism service providers: Processes and implications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a> Hannes Thees<\/strong>, Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany, \"\"<\/a> Elina St\u00f6rmann<\/strong>, Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany,<\/em><\/em> \"\"<\/a> Franziska Thiele<\/strong>, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany<\/em><\/em> & \"\"<\/a> Natalie Olbrich<\/strong>, Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany<\/em>
Published online: 18 October 2021, JTHSM, 7(2), pp.3-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOI: 10.5281\/zenodo.5548393<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shaping digitalization among German tourism service providers: Processes and implications Hannes Thees,\u00a0Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany, Elina St\u00f6rmann,\u00a0Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany, Franziska Thiele,\u00a0Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany & Natalie Olbrich, Catholic University of Eichst\u00e4tt-Ingolstadt, GermanyPublished online: 18 October 2021, JTHSM, 7(2), pp.3-15. DOI:\u00a010.5281\/zenodo.5548393 Dublin Core Export <?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′?> <oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc=”http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/” xmlns:oai_dc=”http:\/\/www.openarchives.org\/OAI\/2.0\/oai_dc\/” xmlns:xsi=”http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance” [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5788\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jthsm.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}