Big Data and Sustainability in the Tourism Industry
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 69888
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Interests: hospitality; service management; online review; food service
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Dear Colleagues,
The main feature of the tourism sector is that it has a high level of competition and a dynamic relationship. Globalization and the increasing number of travelers are a reminder of the sustainability of the tourism sector. The concept of sustainability aims to find a balance between economic, social, and environmental development. Accordingly, sustainable tourism aims to create economic value while preserving the natural and social resources of the territory. However, as well as creating multiple stakeholder opportunities, this new big data technology paradigm, which forms a fundamental force in the tourism sector, may also be seen as a stepping stone to fostering sustainable solutions. Nevertheless, the literature seems to overlook the role of big data technology in promoting sustainable development in the tourism sector and focus on short-term profits rather than solutions to environmental and social problems. In other words, a great debate has emerged over the concept of sustainable tourism, and the tourism sector needs to spread new competitiveness and organizational dynamism driven by innovation in business models and big data analysis. It is necessary to explore how big data analysis can create social and environmental values, as well as economic and financial sustainability, in line with the principle of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Accordingly, this Call for Papers seeks original and relevant conceptual and empirical papers on how big data analysis provides tourism actors, organizations, territories, and ecosystems with new opportunities for creating economic, social, and environmental values.
The topics of interest and research questions in the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Big data business models and environmental issues in hospitality and tourism;
- Big data analytics for sustainable tourism;
- The influence of big data on the creation of social value in hospitality and tourism;
- Big data tools that promote sustainable development of tourism;
- Big data social innovation in hospitality and tourism;
- Sustainable economic growth of tourism ecosystem;
- Big data for conservation of natural and cultural heritage;
- Big data on waste problems in tourism;
- Climate change and tourism in the big data environment;
- Customer sustainable behavior and big data tools in tourism.
Dr. Hak-Seon Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable tourism
- Big data on social value creation hospitality and tourism
- Sustainable economic growth in tourism ecosystems
- Climate change and tourism in a big data world
- Big data analytics for sustainable tourism
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