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Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

ISBN: 978-1-78756-688-0, eISBN: 978-1-78756-687-3

Publication date: 14 October 2019

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(2019), "Index", Ivanov, S. and Webster, C. (Ed.) Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-687-320191013

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INDEX

Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 8, 79, 106, 123, 158, 175, 185–186, 209, 224, 242

AI-enabled business applications
, 255

intelligent internal systems, relying on
, 234

Metis platform
, 173

for personalization and customization
, 231–233

platform
, 162

in restaurants
, 186

technologies
, 259

in TTH
, 15–19

Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
, 106

Artificial Narrow Intelligence
, 16, 18

Artificial Superintelligence
, 16, 18

Attitudes
, 81–82, 86–87, 94

Automation (see also Service automation (SA))

of hotel services
, 159–160

of tasks
, 48

Chatbots
, 8, 18, 42–43, 106, 163, 169–170, 187–188, 226, 262

adoption in tourism services
, 105

in airline industry
, 113

challenges
, 113–114

intelligence
, 107

knowledge base
, 106

literature in different contexts
, 108–110

theoretical background
, 114–117

in tourism and hospitality industry
, 107–112

Conceptual framework
, 22–29

of adoption
, 116

of tourism bot from input query to output reply
, 111

Cost-benefit analysis
, 40

financial and non-financial benefits of RAISA adoption
, 42–44

financial and non-financial costs of RAISA adoption
, 45–47

of investing in RAISA technologies
, 42

Economic fundamentals of RAISA
, 40–42

adoption of RAISA technologies
, 51–53

cost-benefit analysis of investing in RAISA technologies
, 42–47

human employees and RAISA technologies
, 47–51

Event(s)

AI-enabled business applications
, 255

context of events
, 257–258

event experience
, 263–264

face-recognition technology
, 262

management software
, 259

marketing
, 261

operations
, 262–263

RAISA and event literature
, 256–257

RAISA applicability to events
, 259

safety
, 260–261

security
, 259–260

staging
, 261–262

technology tools
, 262

venue
, 263

venue security
, 259

Hospitality
, 7, 123, 157, 264

businesses
, 127

customers
, 66

firms
, 126

impacts of RAISA on service quality in
, 125

influence of RAISA on service quality and experience
, 124–128

RAISA and service quality
, 128–129

services
, 123

Hospitality robots

in airports and hotels
, 136–137

limitations
, 138

in museums
, 137

tele-operated
, 137–138

Hotels
, 123

DNA content platform
, 162

guest experience, guest cycle, and RAISA
, 158–161

hospitality robots in
, 136–137

pedagogical implications
, 174

practical implications
, 174

RAISA application during guest cycle
, 161–173

RAISA in
, 157–158

research implications
, 174–175

Museum(s)
, 239–240

chronological framework of Museums’ orientations
, 241–242

drones
, 240–241

of Holography
, 248

hospitality robots in
, 137

as labs of future culture
, 248–249

marketing
, 241–242

RAISA approach to preservation management
, 246–247

RAISA in service design
, 242–245

superstars
, 239

Perceptions
, 70

user perceptions of trust
, 67

Restaurants
, 123

Restaurants, RAISA in (see also Automated restaurant systems)

AI
, 185–186

automated food delivery
, 209

automated restaurant systems
, 206–209

Bear Robotics
, 200

biometric identification
, 191–194

Chatbots
, 187–188

front of house restaurant robots
, 199–200

industry insights
, 200

Penny Robot
, 200–203

Robot Waiters
, 204

Robotic Bars
, 205–206

Robotic Cashiers at QSR
, 204

robots at back of house
, 196–198

robots in
, 194–196

service automation
, 206

voice-activated technologies
, 188–191

Robot(ics)
, 79, 93, 124, 127, 136, 158, 170–172, 185, 209, 240, 246

anthropomorphism
, 94–95

Anxiety Scale
, 83, 95

at back of house
, 196–198

Bars
, 205–206

Cashiers at QSR
, 204

costs for adapting premises to facilitating mobility
, 45

guides
, 242

in hospitality
, 175

Host from Tanuki Restaurant
, 198–199

kitchen assistants
, 196

kitchen technology
, 197

Lawnmower
, 21

manipulators
, 150

Penny
, 200–203

in restaurants
, 194–196

Runners
, 199

technologies
, 185, 224

in TTH
, 19–22

Waiters
, 204

Robots, artificial intelligence, and service automation (RAISA)
, 1–3, 7, 39, 123, 128–129, 157, 185, 221, 241, 256

advances in
, 8

applicability to events
, 259–264

approach to preservation management
, 246–247

in back office operations of TAs
, 229

conceptual framework
, 22–29

and event literature
, 256–257

in front office operations of TAs
, 224–229

future development in TA operations
, 231–234

guest experience, guest cycle, and
, 158–161

impacts
, 25–27

influence of RAISA on service quality and experience
, 124–128

in service design
, 242–245

technologies and TA
, 223–224

in TICs
, 230

in TTH
, 10–22

Self-service technologies (SSTs)
, 10, 57, 124, 158, 164, 167

adoption and usage by customers
, 64–68

benefits and drawbacks from SST implementation
, 60–64

check-in kiosks
, 10–11, 15, 43

conceptual framework of customer SST adoption
, 64

definition and classifications
, 57–60

examples
, 61

information kiosk
, 230

user roles and perceptions
, 70

value co-creation and customer roles in
, 68–71

drawbacks for
, 62–63

Service quality
, 126, 128–129

benefits and drawbacks for service providers
, 62–63

impacts of RAISA on
, 124–128

Service robots
, 158

attitudes toward
, 94–95

Technological/technology
, 206

adoption
, 82, 114, 262

affordances
, 95–96

complexity of RAISA solutions
, 52

consumption research
, 94

ideology
, 96–98

innovations
, 79, 240–241

interfaces
, 58

pause
, 66

penetration
, 221

sensemaking
, 95–96

solutions
, 240

Tourism
, 7, 221, 264

attractions sector
, 59

distribution
, 224

ecosystem
, 114

and hospitality industry, chatbots in
, 107–112

industry
, 114

supply chain
, 222

Tourist information centers (TIC)
, 2–3, 221

RAISA technologies in
, 230

Travel, tourism, and hospitality (TTH)
, 7, 39, 57, 79

artificial intelligence in
, 15–19

economic framework of RAISA adoption in
, 41

industries
, 9

managers
, 40

RAISA in
, 9–10

robots in
, 19–22

sample monetary and non-monetary variables
, 50

service automation in
, 10–15

Travel agencies (TA)
, 221

AI for personalization and customization
, 231–233

current technologies application
, 225

future development of RAISA in TA operations
, 231

integrated smart eco-system
, 233–234

intelligent internal systems, relying on business analytics and AI
, 234

operations
, 222–223

RAISA technologies and
, 221–230

Prelims
Introduction: RAISA in Future Travel-related Industries
Section 1: Theoretical Issues of Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality
Chapter 1: Conceptual Framework of the Use of Robots, Artificial Intelligence and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Companies
Chapter 2: Economic Fundamentals of the Use of Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality
Chapter 3: Self-service Technologies in the Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality Sectors: Principles and Practice
Chapter 4: Customer Attitudes Toward Robots in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality: A Conceptual Framework
Chapter 5: Making Sense of Robots: Consumer Discourse on Robots in Tourism and Hospitality Service Settings
Chapter 6: Chatbot Adoption in Tourism Services: A Conceptual Exploration
Chapter 7: The Impact of Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation on Service Quality and Service Experience in Hospitality
Chapter 8: Greggg: A Scalable High-performance, Low-cost Hospitality Robot
Section 2: Application of Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality
Chapter 9: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Hotels
Chapter 10: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Restaurants
Chapter 11: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Travel Agencies and Tourist Information Centers
Chapter 12: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation to the Core: Remastering Experiences at Museums
Chapter 13: The Role of Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Service Automation in Events
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