63536 20171216115326.0 doi 10.4172/21670269.1000165 sideral 103026 ART-2015-103026 eng García Campillo, María Prospective Development of the Tourism on line Distribution Channel 2015 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted We know of the development of the online channel in the tourism distribution system, due to the intensive application of ICT. This seems announce like a revolution in the industry, with structural changes in production, and in the behaviour of the involved agents. However, more advances in the literature are needed in order to gain theories to the body of knowledge. With this aim, qualitative research is done through in-depth interviews driven to a selection of experts in the eld; managers of multi-channel distribution systems as well as of online channel in exclusive. Applying the triangulation of data methodology provides results which reveal certain types of changes, derived from the adoption of ICT, that tourism companies adopters consider as signi cant competitive advantages, with capability to affect companies’ results and increase its power within the distribution channel. This offers great potential for the future development of the online channel and for the companies that use it exclusively. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/ECO2010-20880 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion (orcid)0000-0003-3050-1634 Berné Manero, María del Carmen Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6467-7414 Orive, Víctor 4011 095 Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Dirección de Marketing e Investigación de Mercados Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados 4, 4 (2015) J. tour. hosp. (Los Angeles, Calif.) Journal of tourism & hospitality (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2167-0269 366503 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63536/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 91229 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63536/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63536 articulos driver 2017-12-15-12:46:58 ARTICLE