Information technology application in tourism management in China

Information Technologies change the world dramatically and are applied in tourism management deeply and widely. The goal of this paper is to investigate the evolution and transformation of Information Technologies application in tourism management in China. The study designed new distribution channel as a standard of division stage, and analyzed the history of Information Technologies application in tourism management in China. The analysis results showed that there are four stages, which are era of traditional travel agencies, era of preliminary appliance, era of integrated appliance, and era of social network. This study confirms that the more deeply and widely Information Technologies used in tourism, the more convenient and efficient the tourism management will be.