Cultural Heritage and Smart 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 (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 38082
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to invite you to submit your most recent research related to Cultural Heritage and Smart Tourism for this exciting Special Issue.
Cultural heritage comes in many shapes and forms: tangible, intangible, natural and digital. It is important to preserve it, and pass it, on to future generations. You may think of heritage as being ‘from the past’ or static, but it actually evolves though our engagement with it.
2018 is The European Year of Cultural Heritage: “Throughout 2018, we will celebrate our diverse cultural heritage across Europe - at EU, national, regional and local level. The aim of the European Year of Cultural Heritage is to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe's cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space. The slogan for the year is: Our heritage: where the past meets the future”. (https://europa.eu/cultural-heritage/about)
Nowadays, the establishment of technological solutions that support the dissemination and communication of the cultural heritage of a territory with its residents and visitors is fundamental. Although many large territories enjoy a very high cultural wealth, a lot of the cultural and historical heritage remains in small villages or regions.
In a time when technology is present in our both personal and leisure together with working lives, all territories should echo this and look for how to introduce ICT tools that help to increase the value of their culture and to be more accessible and interactive bases upon enabling true Smart Tourism Destination.
New digital services based on mobile technologies can now provide personalized, location-based, and context-aware information to tourism consumers, more over can also offer new opportunities to manage tourist flows, cultural heritage conservation and positive social change through enriched interactions with local residents.
Therefore, this Special Issue provides a forum to discuss and identify new trends and developments in mobile technologies and smart tourism development in the hospitality and tourism industry, with an emphasis on sustainability of the cultural heritage.
We invite researchers to submit original papers that include conceptual, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Smart destination and cultural heritage
- Digital co-creation channels to empower the cultural heritage
- Interactive Tourism and cultural heritage
- Sustainability of cultural heritage in smart destination
- Smart tourism destination & cultural heritage: a new unexplored sector in smart cities develop
- Marketing strategies of heritage cities as tourism destinations
- Case studies of smart tourism
- The impact of mobile technology on smart tourism development
- Users of smart applications in hospitality and tourism
- Sustainability opportunities and challenges in the context of smart tourism development
Prof. Dr. María Concepción Parra-Meroño
Guest Editor
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