VIRTUALIZATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES IN TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS

Virtualization of information resources is a fast growing technology in the business environment. Given technology is the basis for the development of the industrial sector, telecommunications, cloud computing and other socio-economic structures. This concept could be approximately defined due to virtual systems in the business environment (i.e. virtual machines, virtualized processor systems, virtualization of memory system and I/O system virtualization, as well as virtualized network structures such as network function virtualization (NFV) and software defined network (SDN)). This technology converges with Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data into a modern information system. The aim of the research is to show that this concept provides flexibility and fast implementation of new business solutions, that is, positively affects the increase of productivity and efficiency in firms. There is the necessity that tourism organisations in Serbia become aware of contemporary trends, in order to improve their business.