ICT in Tourism Experience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 9240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital marketing; destination management and marketing; sustainable tourism; tourism and ICT; social marketing; sharing economy
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Interests: e–tourism; e-marketing; gastronomy; social media marketing; snow tourism; sustainable tourism marketing
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Interests: e-marketing; e-tourism; peer-to-peer accommodation platforms; social media marketing; sustainable tourism marketing; compositional data analysis
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Interests: e-marketing; social media marketing; tourist destination marketing; tourism analytics; sustainable tourism marketing; sharing economy; peer-to-peer accommodation platforms
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Interests: e-tourism; e-marketing; social media; hospitality; sharing economy; peer-to-peer experiences platforms; peer-to-peer accommodation platforms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is no question about the profound impact that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have had and continue to have on travel and tourism. Technology adoption is an ongoing challenge for the tourism industry all over the world.
This Special Issue aims to examine and discuss the role of ICT in Tourism Experiences, from the point of view of sustainability. The inclusion of ICT has a potential transformative effect on tourism industry and on tourist experiences, which has profound implications for sustainability.
From an offer perspective, ICTs in the tourism sector facilitate the distribution of tourist information and products through the Internet. Secondly, ICTs improve all communications based on the promotion, advertising, marketing and contracting of tourism services. Finally, they allow us to offer tourism products and services directly to a large number of consumers at a relatively low cost and to maintain relationships with them. In this context, tourism organizations have acquired ICT to implement and continuously upgrade technologies in their facilities in order to maintain a competitive advantage through product innovation and thus be able to compete in the marketplace.
From a demand perspective, tourism is extremely dependent on ICTs, because before making a trip, tourists demand information to plan and choose among multiple options, and also observe the growing need for information during and after the trip. It also plays an important role in the formation of tourist destinations’ image since it facilitates the sharing of experiences once the trip is over, through the creation of massive online user-generated contents (UGC) spread through the e-Word-of-Mouth effect (eWOM).
Taking all this into account, this monograph aims to collect evidence-based proposals to meaningfully integrate ICTs into tourism experiences, as well as theoretical contributions that can inform good tourism practices with ICTs for a sustainable future.
We welcome research articles, case studies, and theoretical, methodological, and applied papers that analyze ICT in tourism experiences at the destination level as well as at the company level and tourist behavior from an interdisciplinary point of view.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Tourism and Hospitality.
Prof. Dr. Eduard Cristobal-Fransi
Prof. Dr. Natalia Daries
Prof. Dr. Berta Ferrer-Rosell
Prof. Dr. Estela Marine-Roig
Prof. Dr. Eva Martin-Fuentes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability opportunities and challenges in the context of ICT in tourism development
- theory and research methods applied to the ICT in tourism experience
- case studies of the application of ICTs in tourism experiences
- VR and AR developments in tourism destinations
- ICTs in tourist behavior and social practices
- current trends in ICT in tourism experiences
- ICT for destination and company marketing
- ICT solutions for the tourism industry (hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, etc.)
- acceptance, adoption and diffusion of ICT in the tourism industry
- big data analytics in the tourism industry.
Related Special Issue
- ICT in Tourism Experience in Tourism and Hospitality (1 article)
