Table of contents - Special Issue: Smart tourism and competitive advantage for stakeholders
Guest Editors: Chulmo Koo, Luiz Mendes-Filho, Dimitrios Buhalis
Tourism information technology research trends: 1990-2016
Yulan Yuan, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Chaang-Iuan HoThe advancement of data analysis tools makes analyzing a huge amount of literature possible. This paper aims to identify tourism information technology research trends with the…
Tourists’ shifting perceptions of UNESCO heritage sites: lessons from Jeju Island-South Korea
Kun Kim, Ounjoung Park, Jacob Barr, Haejung YunThe purpose of this research is to analyze the shifting perceptions of international tourists to Jeju Island and provide practical lessons to the tourism industry. Specifically…
Gamified mobile experiences: smart technologies for tourism destinations
Ander Garcia, Maria Teresa Linaza, Aitor Gutierrez, Endika GarciaThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to present gamified mobile experiences as valid tools for DMOs to enrich the experience of tourists, and to present the benefits provided to…
Smart hospitality: Taiwan hotel stakeholder perspectives
Rosanna LeungThe term smartness has been discussed in the academia for many years; prior research has listed numerous advantages and encouraged business entities to implement smart…
Smart destinations and tech-savvy millennial tourists: hype versus reality
Francisco Femenia-Serra, José F. Perles-Ribes, Josep A. Ivars-BaidalThis paper aims to contrast the expectations placed on the smart destination as a theoretical management approach with the reality of emergent tech-savvy tourism demand by…
Mobile technologies and applications towards smart tourism – state of the art
Jelena Dorcic, Jelena Komsic, Suzana MarkovicThe popularity of mobile technologies and applications is constantly growing and undoubtedly changing consumers’ and providers’ behavior. The purpose of this study is to provide a…
Data-focused managerial challenges within the hotel sector
Markus Lamest, Mairead BradyThe purpose of this paper is to explore the managerial decision-making challenges of the use of data from online and offline customer data flooding into firms and managed through…
The emerging smart event experience: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
John Richard Thomas Bustard, Peter Bolan, Adrian Devine, Karise HutchinsonThe use of “special events” as an attractor for destinations in the smart tourism paradigm has been suggested as one element of an effective destination strategy. This study aims…

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