Leisure Involvement and Smart Sustainable Tourism
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2024) | Viewed by 398
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable tourism development; tourism business marketing management; multi-criteria decision-making; management decision science; fuzzy multi-objective planning; agricultural tourism; smart tourism
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Interests: online marketing; service industry technology application; recreation resource planning; tourism impact; sustainable tourism; hotel disaster management and preparedness; tourism industry disaster resilience; tourism industry operational risk management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Leisure involvement refers to an individual’s level of investment or concentration in leisure-related activities. This refers to people's interest, enjoyment, and level of involvement in recreational activities, in other words. Needless to say, leisure involvement significantly varies both from person to person and across different activities. For example, it could involve deep engagement in adventurous exploration activities; participation in nature or cultural trips; immersion in accommodation or culinary experiences; or focusing on sports, board games, or competitive gaming as recreational activities.
The synergy between modern technology and smart leisure has resulted in a transformative enhancement of leisure and entertainment experiences overall. From the consumer's perspective, smart-leisure travel brings about diverse entertainment experiences and benefits. These include, for instance, engaging in leisure activities through e-commerce platforms or different communication software, experiencing unique and captivating leisure through AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) technologies, enhancing efficiency in leisure experiences with smart travel tools, designing itineraries using AI tools such as ChatGPT, and mitigating travel and leisure risks through intelligent setups. From a manager’s perspective, smart-leisure travel helps save labor costs and provides scientific and innovative marketing strategies. As an example, it generates new prospects for marketing travel destinations; innovates the general travel experience for tourists; mitigates risks in leisure travel; and assists in deepening consumer experiences, understanding consumer preferences, expanding consumer leisure domains, and enhancing the sustainability of travel destinations.
Overall, the combination of leisure participation and smart travel can create a more personalized, enjoyable, efficient, safe, sustainable, and forward-looking leisure experience. This integration aims to satisfy and fulfill various consumer benefits such as individual preferences, flow experiences, diverse leisure activities, experience satisfaction, service convenience, efficient travel quality, sustainable tourism, destination attachment, and loyalty.
This Special Issue warmly welcomes original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Leisure involvement and benefits;
- Leisure involvement and attachment;
- The sustainable development of leisure activities;
- Preferences in leisure behavior;
- Leisure motivation;
- Smart-leisure involvement;
- Sustainable smart tourism;
- Smart tourism destinations;
- Smart tourism and consumer behavior;
- Leisure travel and communication software;
- Leisure travel and social media;
- Leisure travel and e-commerce platforms;
- Virtual reality in the tourism industry;
- Smart technology in leisure resource planning;
- Smart technology and marketing;
- Smart technology and the development of the sustainable tourism industry;
- Smart technology and service quality;
- Smart technology and risk management.
Dr. Ching-Cheng Shen
Prof. Dr. Chung-Hung Tsai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- leisure involvement
- leisure travel
- leisure activities
- smart tourism
- smart technology
- sustainable tourism
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