Tourism as an information business: The Strategic Consequences of e-Commerce for Business Travel

For good reasons, the catchword of “the Mediatization of Society” is often found in literature, both scientific and popular. While in the beginning of the 1990’s everyone talked about the “Information Age”, today “Virtual Organization”, “Mobile Office”, “Electronic Commerce” or “Electronic Markets” are the predominant buzzwords. The preoccupation with the topic “Mediatization of Society” is not surprising given the fact that a great many ideas which were still visions few years ago, have been transformed into reality by today. Often only the speed of data transmission is to blame for the fact that technically feasible applications are not being marketed. Not yet, one must say.