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Social, Ethical, and Moral Issues in Smart Tourism Development in Destinations

  • Pan, Bing;Lin, Michael S.;Liang, Yun;Akyildiz, Ayse;Park, So Young
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2021
  • Smart tourism research and development have mainly focused on the benefits of smart tourism technologies to certain stakeholders with transactional relationships in destinations. However, smart technologies in destinations could also cause several negative outcomes, leading to social, ethical, and moral issues. Such issues arise from the power imbalance between different stakeholders of smart tourism development. To mitigate the adverse effects of smart technologies, destinations need to enunciate the essential moral and ethical principles when developing smart tourism. Therefore, adopting descriptive and normative approaches to stakeholder theory, this paper proposes a framework to showcase several methods to address the issues.

Conceptualization of Smart Tourism Destination Competitiveness

  • Koo, Chulmo;Shin, Seunghun;Gretzel, Ulrike;Hunter, William Cannon;Chung, Namho
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.26 no.4
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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.

Knowledge Mapping of Robotic Applications in Tourism and Hospitality

  • Huiyue, Ye;Sirong, Chen;Rob, Law;Lawrence Hoc Nang, Fong
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.11-23
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    • 2022
  • The use of robots in tourism and hospitality contexts have drawn increasing scholarly and practical regard. Although the number of recent robotics related studies continue to grow, a general knowledge map, which is important to point out promising directions for future studies, remains to be made. To understand the application of robotics in tourism and hospitality, this study conducts descriptive and bibliometric analysis to present a holistic knowledge map of this specific field where research trend, key contributors, highly cited references, and popular themes were identified. Collaboration networks among institutes and regions were additionally illustrated. Collaboration across fields, industries, and perspectives were encouraged following the findings and both theoretical and practical implications are accordingly provided.

Unification Tourism Management Class Module Developed by Community Based Learning(CBL) (지역사회경험학습(Community Based Learning: CBL) 기반 대학 통일관광경영 수업 모듈 개발)

  • Woo, Eun-Ju;Park, Eunkyung;Kim, Yeong-Gug
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.261-271
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    • 2020
  • Purpose - This study was to establish a unified tourism management class for university students based on Gangwon-do. Community based learning(CBL) was applied to provide a tangible and intangible resource of tourism resources the theoretical approaches and the actual experiences of the community. Design/methodology/approach - In order to design a unified tourism management module, this study applied qualitative research and quantitative research methods to collect information on the direction of the module. the study conducted in-depth interviews and then an online survey. Findings - According to the results of the study, the main parts should include necessity of unification, inter-Korean tourism, inter-Korean cooperation, inter-Korean economy, and international relations. Research implications or Originality - The overall composition of the unification tourism management class should be designed as the unification tourism management theory to acquire the subject knowledge, the field trip to the border area for experiential learning, and the assignment of the field study task to understand the community.

Strategic Framework for Website Evaluation based on a Review of Tourism and Hospitality Literature from 2010-2023

  • Xiaonan Li;Dave C. F. Chan;Rob Law
    • Journal of Smart Tourism
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2023
  • This study examines the scientific publications on website evaluation in hospitality and tourism from 2010 to 2023 through a systematic review and discusses implications for future research. The reviewed literature from publication years, journals, research methods, website-related stakeholders, context, various forms of Internet presence (Internet forms), and theories are analyzed to create a comprehensive website evaluation dimension. Furthermore, a conceptual framework is developed to show the relationship between the website characteristics, stakeholders-channels interaction, and stakeholders' reactions. The proposed website evaluation framework in hospitality and tourism synthesizes the existing knowledge, identifies gaps, and further advances our understanding of this research area.