A Framework for E-tourism Acceptance by Meta-Synthesis Method

E-tourism is the digitization of all the processes and value chains in the tourism, travel, hospitality and catering industries that enable organizations to maximize their efficiency and effectiveness. Ubiquitous and highly innovative ICTs provide different channels for consumers to use tourism services; thus, studies on e-tourism are numerous and fragmented. Different factors account for how consumers embrace these channels. This research aims to design an e-tourism acceptance framework using Meta-synthesis method. In order to design and explain a comprehensive model, all dimensions of E-tourism have been identified through systematic literature review using 273 papers and Meta-Synthesis method. Then the importance and priority of each proposed dimension was determined using Shannon quantitative method based on content analysis. The results reveal security, consumer satisfaction and Functionality are the major criteria in E-tourism acceptance. At the end the research results demonstrate a comprehensive framework for e-tourism acceptance. Keywords: E-tourism, acceptance, Security,, Meta-Synthesis, Shannon Entropy