The relationship of information technology to the objectives of the tourism sector
Many economists argue that the poor state of most developing countries’ economies may worsen “if the information sector continues to be neglected as information helps us make use of available knowledge. Improve their activities and make decisions better in all sectors and at all levels. In the tourism sector, the starting point for the tourism planning and the state level is to determine the general (long-term) or short-term goals of the tourism sector as a whole. The general objective of the tourism sector is essentially a goal derived from the objectives of the general plan of the state during a certain period of time, With the objectives of the state at the level of the national economy, and then the inventory of current and projected tourism resources and resources, and determining the contribution of each sub-tourism activity to achieve the target growth rate (hotels, travel agencies, transport companies, etc.). To determine the methods and methods of activities necessary with the development of time programs to achieve the target growth rate in the light of the situational variables of the internal and external environment of the tourism sector and the necessary decisions, sub-plans, policies … etc
In addition to measuring the output of the achievement on a continuous basis and all this is done only through an advanced system and integrated information that carries many of the problems facing the Organization in the performance of its administrative functions in planning, guidance and control and the implementation of its strategies for the product and the market and others.
The foregoing affirms the need for the tourism sector to integrate information technology and information systems from the highest administrative and regulatory levels to the smallest economic tourism unit that contributes to the provision of tourism goods or services to tourists, as will be explained in the following two paragraphs:
First, we clarify the most important variables and conditions that make the tourism sector and its administrative, administrative and executive levels necessary and urgent for technology and information systems to achieve its objectives of tourism development, which are an integral part of the overall national development.
Second, by emphasizing that the tourism system (macro) and its relationship to the systems associated with it and its constituent and how technology and information systems play a role “in achieving the goals of the macro system and subsystems.
