Progress in Sustainable Smart Tourism: Planning, Developing, Management and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Smart tourism is an innovative type of tourism as it provides smart technology applications for tourists’ on-site experiences (i.e., AR, VR, MR, and intelligent guide systems); however, limited research exists on it.

Sustainable tourism requires us to understand the effects of all planning, development, and management on sustainability. This Special Issue aims to present a wide range of papers elucidating cutting-edge progress in sustainable smart tourism relevant to planning, development, management, and sustainability perspectives.

We welcome papers that develop state-of-the-art methods for assessing the cutting-edge progress in smart tourism, new frameworks for theoretical or practical implications, and approaches for monitoring economic, socio-cultural, or environmental perspectives with a view of smart tourism to promote sustainable tourism. This Special Issue will elucidate up-to-date, high-quality, international, multidisciplinary, and valuable insights to support smart tourism development, potentially contributing to the literature.

 Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Artificial intelligence and tourism;
• Augmented reality and tourism;
• Concepts and theories in smart tourism;
• Information and communication technology for tourism;
• The impact of smart technologies on traditional tourism;
• Mixed reality and tourism;
• Smart tourism and service design;
• Smart tourism and tourist behavior;
• Smart tourism destinations;
• Smart tourism experiences;
• Sustainable smart tourism;
• Technologies for designing smart tourism;
• Virtual reality and tourism.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Tsung Hung Lee
Prof. Dr. Fen-Hauh Jan
Guest Editors

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