Information Technology for Business

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Information Technology for Business
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1INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR BUSINESS
Executive Summary
Trip Advisor is known to be American based travel and restaurant platform which provide
views about the hotel and reviews of restaurant. It is all about accommodation of booking and
travel based content. It also comes up with interactive forum for travel. Recently, TripAdvisor
has made use of number of accounts after the organization was warned about compromising
of accounts. During the data breach, hackers focus on verifying both email and combination
of password which was stolen from the system. TripAdvisor aims to send the mail to
respective accounts who believe was accessed by the authorized person. TripAdvisor
focused on the idea of invalidation of password and asked to easily reset the whole thing by
the help of online form.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................2
Discussion...............................................................................................................................2
Need of IT in chosen for Business..........................................................................................2
IT for business survival............................................................................................................3
Applying IT for the chosen business.......................................................................................4
Use of IT in chosen business..................................................................................................4
Benefits and advantages of IT................................................................................................5
Type of risk IT bring in chosen business.................................................................................5
Maintaining and Monitoring of IT.............................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Trip advisor is considered to be as one of the world’s largest travel site. Trip advisor
also aims to make comparison to more than 200 hotels that has booking sites for their
traveller. It is mainly needed for providing things at much lower prices on the hotel (Users and
Goldman, 2019). Information technology (IT) has played a key role in the tourism sector in the
last few years. Technology has ultimately helped in reducing the overall cost, improving
efficiency, enhancing customer experience and lastly improving sales (Banerjee and Chua
2016). Both the customer and business can bring huge number of benefits that have
ultimately improved the overall communication, guest reservation system. Technology has
helped a lot to the tourism and hospitality sector that can replace the current human labour
and technology labour (Filieri, Alguezaui and McLeay 2015). It ultimately helps in reducing the
overall cost associated with labour but also helps in avoiding various kind of problem-related
to customer service. The Internet has created a huge impact on the hospitality and tourism
sector.
In the coming pages of the report, an idea has been provided concerning need for
Australia report on the data breach at TripAdvisor. After that, an explanation has been
provided concerning need of IT that is needed for survival of business. Benefits and
drawbacks of IT in tourism industry have been discussed in details.
Discussion
Need for IT in chosen for Business
With the overall growth of tourism sector can be considered to be as one of the major
contributors to the overall economy of the developing countries. In the last 20 years, there has
been tremendous change in this particular domain (Valdivia, Luzón and Herrera 2017). It is
completely changing the whole sector of in the last few years. Complete revolution within the