Information technology and cloud computing

COURSE CODE: MTRME304 COURSE NAME: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TOURISM Task brief & rubrics

Task: Case Study

This is an individual task. Avoid all types of plagiarism.

Use Moodle to access the case Study “Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Soars in the Cloud” by Issac Gomins.

Submit a pdf document with your responses

Task: Answer the following quesCons:

i) What are the various cloud iniCaCves undertaken by HSH?

ii) Categorize them into IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

iii) What are the advantages of each of the cloud iniCaCves to HSH?

iv) How can this case study be used to show the relaConship between an organizaCon's business strategy and its IS/IT strategy? What would be the result if IS/IT strategies are not compaCble with an organizaCon's business strategy?

v) How well is HSH prepared for the future?

FormaliMes:

• Wordcount: 2500-3000

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

• Text alignment: JusCfied.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citaCon style.

Submission: Week (5) – Via Moodle (TurniCn). Deadline:Friday 8th May 2022. 23:59 CEST.

Weight: This task is a 40% of your total grade for this subject.

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Promote and entrepreneurial mindset to develop innovaCve projects within the tourism industry.

• Outcome 2: Understand the new digital trends in Tourism management and business models, parCcularly those supported by InformaCon systems.

• Outcome 3: Know how to apply new tools and currently technology to new and exisCng business to burst their compeCCve advantages.

Rubrics

ExcepMonal 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Un- derstanding (20%)

Student demonstrates exce- llent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabu- lary in an enCrely appro- priate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and menCons some rele- vant concepts and demons- trates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and ahempts to answer the quesCon but does not men- Con key concepts or uses mi- nimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

ApplicaMon (30%) Student applies fully rele- vant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly rele- vant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some rele- vant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies lihle relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunders- tands are evident.

CriMcal Thinking (30%)

Student criCcally assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student criCcally assesses in good ways, drawing conclu- sions from relevant authors and references.

Student provides some in- sights but stays on the sur- face of the topic. Referen- ces may not be relevant.

Student makes lihle or none criCcal thinking insights, does not quote appropriate aut- hors, and does not provide valid sources.

CommunicaMon (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecCng word count, grammar and spell- check

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecCng word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the word- count limit. Some misspe- lling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed word- count excessively and misspe- lling errors are evident.