• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.3-5
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• 2021

The advancement of Information Communication Technology has provided tourism researchers with a golden opportunity to access big data, which plays a critical role in smart tourism. Recognizing the current issue, this paper discusses the evolution of the literature on tourism big data focusing on conceptual understanding of and types of big data, and insights from big data analytics. Indeed, this article provides important research agenda for future tourism researchers who would like to conduct academic research about big data and smart tourism.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2023

This paper presents a conceptual approach to Smart Tourism Design based on semiotic affordances theory. This conceptual approach repositions smart tourism from a techno-centric perspective that frames a seamless connection between the device and its software, to a more human-centric perspective that favors the user's needs, desires as perceived through the senses. An updated Smart Tourism Design emphasizes the aesthetic dimension of smart tourism that presents the objects of the travel experience as destination specific rather than universal, through representations as digital artifacts. This theory is based on an empirical and objective understanding of representations and how they can be identified as useful in the digital augmentation of travel experiences. Using Peirce's sign systems and Gibson's theory of affordances, smart tourism can transcend a prefabricated device-oriented experience to a closer dynamic and direct interaction between the user and the travel destination. Researchers and developers can use semiotics as a structural approach to recognizing objects as sign-types, and they can use affordances to better identify the immediacy of digital artifacts and purpose-driven by users' spontaneous and immediate motives.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.215-230
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• 2019

Numerous city problems have arisen in some tourist cities as tourists enter the city beyond the limits of its capacity. As an alternative to this problem, the discussion of smart tourism cities has led many cities to pursue urban planning with the aim of transforming them into smart tourism cities. Therefore, the present study attempted to discuss the city self-reliance that smart tourism cities need to solve a number of problems and grow as a happy city, both residents and tourists, who are the ultimate goal in the long-term goals. More specifically, this study aims to provide basic data for the economic growth of cities that are most fundamental in city's self-reliance by assessing the economic value of smart tourism. To achieve this research purpose, the economic value of smart tourism was estimated using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), and the results showed that each person is willing to pay 220,709 won. This is about 10,000 won higher than the 211,163 won announced by the National Travel Survey in 2017, which is estimated to be of higher economic value when recognized as smart tourism. On the basis of these results, this study provided basic policy data in promoting smart tourism cities as well as expanding understanding of smart tourism.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2021

As a popular concept, smart tourism is widely used as a strategic tool to improve the competitiveness of world tourism destinations. Taking Macao as a case study, this research explores the relationship between government, academic research, and smart destination applications, with a view toward investigating the utilization of smart technology to achieve service innovation, effective communication with tourists, and enhance the travel experience. The study summarizes the current situation of smart tourism in Macao, finding that most of the smart services in Macao rely on users to obtain information spontaneously and do not achieve real interaction and service demand. Suggestions and advice for smart development are provided.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.35-39
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• 2023

This research note probes the largely ignored sphere of smart tourism curriculum as destinations and institutions seek to develop graduates ready to embrace the demands and challenges of future work environments where technology has a ubiquitous presence. This knowledge gap is somewhat surprising, even as destinations progress towards smart tourism futures, without necessarily clarifying what human resources need to possess in the coming decades. Drawing from available smart tourism curriculum across the globe, and emergent trends associated with Generation Alpha and Beta, this research note paints a timely picture of how smart tourism curriculum should be designed and developed to meet the needs of industry and consumer demands and expectations.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.561-576
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• 2016

This paper aims to develop a conceptual model of smart tourism destination competitiveness to provide implications in terms of smart tourism destination realization and smart tourism destination competitiveness development. A literature review on tourism destination competitiveness and smart tourism destination is performed. A conceptual model is suggested on the basis of the model of destination competitiveness developed by Crouch and Ritchie (1999). The suggested conceptual model integrates the traditional concepts of comparative advantages and competitive advantages, seven core resources and attractors, and five destination management factors. Smart technology is included as a new core resource and attractor in the model. This study is the first to comprehensively conceptualize smart tourism destination competitiveness. Moreover, this study has practical value in the sense that it focused on the convergence between smart technology and other factors.

• 정보화정책
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.91-108
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• 2022

근대적 방식의 관광 개발이 야기한 여러 도시 문제들에 대한 해결책으로 '스마트관광도시'가 주목받고 있다. 그러나 스마트관광도시로의 발전을 위한 구체적인 방향이나 지침이 부족한 상황에서 일부 지자체들은 천편일률적인 관광앱을 개발하는데 막대한 투자비용을 들이고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 국내·외의 주요 관광도시에 두루 적용할 수 있는 표준화되고 객관적인 '스마트관광도시 경쟁력 지표'를 개발하고, 서울을 포함한 세계 여러 도시들의 스마트관광도시 경쟁력 수준을 평가하고자 하였다. 평가 지표는 매력성, 접근가능성, 디지털 준비도, 지속가능성, 마지막으로 협력적 파트너십으로 구성되었다. 도시별 분석 결과, 싱가포르가 가장 높은 수준의 스마트관광도시 경쟁력을 갖고 있는 것으로 평가되었으며, 이어 암스테르담, 뉴욕, 서울, 바르셀로나, 코펜하겐의 순으로 나타났다. 반면 호치민과 방콕은 상대적으로 스마트관광도시화에 더 많은 노력이 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 이를 통해 향후 스마트관광도시 관련 사업들을 지속적이고 체계적으로 모니터링 할 수 있는 글로벌 표준으로도 활용하여 유의미한 시사점을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.17-21
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• 2023

This research note aims to provide a critical understanding of "tourist stupidity" and "exclusiveness" within the smart tourism domain and to propose a corresponding qualitative research agenda. It argues that qualitative research methodologies are too infrequently applied, leading to a paradox evident in smart tourism studies. Accordingly, it suggests that embracing a qualitative perspective is essential to diversify the scholarly discourse and promote advanced inquiry in the field of smart tourism. It further seeks to contribute to ongoing debates by focusing on umbrella terms, such as "tourist stupidity" and "exclusiveness," for a more nuanced and holistic understanding of smart tourism and proposes a research agenda that advocates a re-evaluation of qualitative approaches.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.7-18
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• 2024

This study examines Natal in Brazil as a Smart Tourism Destination (STD) based on the perception of public and private managers who are members of the City Tourism Council. The research utilizes a systemic perspective of STD proposed by Ivars-Baidal et al. (2016), consisting of three interconnected levels: Strategic-Relational, Instrumental, and Applied. The findings reveal that Natal faces challenges in terms of infrastructure, accessibility, security, connectivity, and sensoring, which hinder its progress as STD. The study also identifies opportunities in the form of governance structures with smart destinations and the inclusion of smartness guidelines in the City Master Plan. The research aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of STD and its application in destination development. It highlights the need for innovative planning and management in Natal, emphasizing that adopting the STD from a systemic perspective can enhance competitiveness and elevate the level of smartness in the destination.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.67-88
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• 2024

스마트관광은 지역의 관광자원 활용을 극대화하고 도시를 효과적으로 관리하며 관광객과 주민 간의 소통과 삶의 질을 개선하는 데 기여한다. 따라서 스마트관광은 지역 간의 협력을 강조하며 스마트관광도시는 거주민과 관광객을 모두 고려하는 포괄적 관점에서의 연구가 필요하다. 이 연구에서는 지역 관광 경쟁력 제고를 위한 스마트관광과 지역 간의 상호작용 및 역할에 대해 논의하고자 하였다. 특히, 스마트관광도시의 구성요소인 스마트관광 4대 요소(스마트 경험, 스마트 편의, 스마트 접근성, 스마트 플랫폼)를 지역민, 지역상권, 지역자원, 지역생태계와 접목하여 긍정적 시너지를 위해서 어떻게, 왜 라는 관점에서 서비스 구축 단계부터 활성화 단계까지 심층적으로 살펴보였다. 이를 위해 대한민국 제1호 인천 스마트관광도시 사례를 대상으로 단일 사례 연구 디자인 방법을 채택하였다. 연구결과 지역과의 협력적 스마트관광도시 모델은 서비스 만족도를 높이며 지역 관광 경쟁력을 강화하는 긍정적인 효과를 나타냈다. 특히, 스마트관광도시의 다양한 구성 요소들이 지역사회와 상호작용하여 새로운 가치를 창출하였으며 이는 방문객 증대와 도시 브랜딩 강화로 이어지는 결과를 보였다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 본 연구는 스마트관광도시 발전 방향을 제시하고 스마트 기술과 지역관광의 융합으로 인한 지역 경쟁력 강화 연구로써 기여할 것으로 기대한다.