What are the characteristics of tourism management information system?

Management information system has the following characteristics:

(1) Management-oriented decision-making

Management information system (MIS) is another important development after management thought and method, management and decision-making behavior theory. It is an information system for management decision-making. It must be able to provide the required information in time to help decision makers make decisions according to the needs of management.

(2) comprehensiveness

In a broad sense, management information system is a comprehensive system for overall management of organizations. When an organization establishes a management information system, it can gradually apply subsystems in various fields into one, and then synthesize them according to needs, and finally achieve the purpose of comprehensive management by applying management information system. The significance of synthesizing a management information system is to produce higher-level management information and serve management decision-making.

(3) Man-machine system

The purpose of management information system is to assist decision-making, and decision-making can only be made by people, so management information system must be a man-machine combination system. In the management information system, managers at all levels are both users and components of the system. Therefore, in the process of developing management information system, we should correctly define the position and role of people and computers in the system according to this characteristic, give full play to their respective strengths, and make the overall performance of the system reach the best.

(4) A system combining modern management science with means.

In the practice of management information system application, it is found that the application of management information system only uses computer technology to improve the processing speed without advanced management means, and the application of management information system only uses computer system to simulate the original manual management system, at best, it only reduces the labor of managers, and its function is very limited. In order to play its role in management, management information system must be combined with advanced management means and methods, and modern management ideas and methods should be integrated into the development of management information system.

(5) interdisciplinary marginal science

As a new discipline, management information system came into being late, and its theoretical system is still in the process of development and perfection. Early researchers extracted corresponding theories from computer science and technology, applied mathematics, management theory, decision theory, operational research and other related disciplines, and formed the theoretical basis of management information system, thus forming a frontier science with distinctive characteristics.