An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]

As the backbone of the economic contributor to the Gross National Profit (GNP), tourism sector plays a vital role in creating employment opportunities. For that reason, attention is given to the travel agencies’ operators to improve productivity and to be competitive in the travel and tour markets....

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Main Authors: Shaharuddin, Nor Asikin, Abd. Rahman, Azmawani, Abd. Aziz, Yuhanis, Kassim, Suhailah
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2018
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author Shaharuddin, Nor Asikin
Abd. Rahman, Azmawani
Abd. Aziz, Yuhanis
Kassim, Suhailah
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Abd. Rahman, Azmawani
Abd. Aziz, Yuhanis
Kassim, Suhailah
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description As the backbone of the economic contributor to the Gross National Profit (GNP), tourism sector plays a vital role in creating employment opportunities. For that reason, attention is given to the travel agencies’ operators to improve productivity and to be competitive in the travel and tour markets. However, in reality, not all companies adopt and use effectively, or even use, information technology. The gap lies between the realities of the actual usage of information technology. A deeper understanding of the current demographic profile and web technologies and e-business adoption practice is vital to know the current trends and practices are implemented among SME entrepreneurs. This study provides a general description of SME’s travel agencies background and web-technology and e-business adoption profile in Malaysia. A total of 313 respondents from SMEs owners/managers has been selected using multistage cluster sampling method to answer the open ended questionnaire. A descriptive analysis SPSS was used in describing the web technologies adoption among Malaysia SMEs travel agencies. The findings of the study revealed that Malaysia SMEs still attach to the conventional way of conducting travel agencyy business.
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spelling uitm-298282020-04-09T05:25:53Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29828/ An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.] joa Shaharuddin, Nor Asikin Abd. Rahman, Azmawani Abd. Aziz, Yuhanis Kassim, Suhailah Small business. Medium-sized business Malaysia Information technology. Information systems As the backbone of the economic contributor to the Gross National Profit (GNP), tourism sector plays a vital role in creating employment opportunities. For that reason, attention is given to the travel agencies’ operators to improve productivity and to be competitive in the travel and tour markets. However, in reality, not all companies adopt and use effectively, or even use, information technology. The gap lies between the realities of the actual usage of information technology. A deeper understanding of the current demographic profile and web technologies and e-business adoption practice is vital to know the current trends and practices are implemented among SME entrepreneurs. This study provides a general description of SME’s travel agencies background and web-technology and e-business adoption profile in Malaysia. A total of 313 respondents from SMEs owners/managers has been selected using multistage cluster sampling method to answer the open ended questionnaire. A descriptive analysis SPSS was used in describing the web technologies adoption among Malaysia SMEs travel agencies. The findings of the study revealed that Malaysia SMEs still attach to the conventional way of conducting travel agencyy business. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29828/1/29828.pdf Shaharuddin, Nor Asikin and Abd. Rahman, Azmawani and Abd. Aziz, Yuhanis and Kassim, Suhailah (2018) An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]. (2018) Journal of Academia <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Academia.html>, 6 (1). pp. 89-96. ISSN 2289-6368 https://nsembilan.uitm.edu.my/joacns/
spellingShingle Small business. Medium-sized business
Malaysia
Information technology. Information systems
Shaharuddin, Nor Asikin
Abd. Rahman, Azmawani
Abd. Aziz, Yuhanis
Kassim, Suhailah
An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]
title An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]
title_full An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]
title_fullStr An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]
title_short An assessment of web technologies & E-business adoption among SMES travel agencies in Malaysia / Nor Asikin Shaharuddin... [et al.]
title_sort assessment of web technologies & e-business adoption among smes travel agencies in malaysia / nor asikin shaharuddin... [et al.]
topic Small business. Medium-sized business
Malaysia
Information technology. Information systems
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29828/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29828/