Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality in the Digital Age
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 April 2022) | Viewed by 9373
Special Issue Editors
Interests: analysis of tourism and cultural activities in economic development
Interests: analysis of tourism, sustainability and new economic models in sharing economy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to become a forum for the advancement of scientific knowledge by incorporating papers related to two key variables in the field of tourism and hospitality: sustainability and the digital age. Likewise, proposals that seek to analyse, among other issues, the possible causal and/or consequential relationships between them, will be welcome.
In recent decades, we are witnessing the emergence and consolidation of new forms to understand the tourism, away from the traditional mass travel, and this is accompanied by technological development, improvements in transports and communication, and the globalization process. Currently we cannot speak of tourism in general ignoring further aspects which help specify the type of tourism. So, new tourist segments have developed such as heritage tourism, gastronomic tourism, nature tourism, collaborative tourism, and so on. And this development will be dwarfed by the possibilities that sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, social networks, etc. will bring. Either way, despite the potential of these tools for tourism development, we cannot ignore the sustainability requirement that tourist destinations should manage strategically since the attractiveness for tourists may end up disappearing due to the lack of medium and long term vision of tourism managers. And, within this necessary sustainability, inclusive aspects that involve the participation of the local community must be included both in decision-making matters of its management and in the equitable socio-economic use that tourism may entail.
For this reason, the goal of this Special Issue is to provide scientific studies that help understand the variable of tourism sustainability in a world increasingly digitized, where events like an accumulation of negative or positive opinions in social networks can have important consequences for the tourist development of a certain destination. In any case, we cannot forget the special situation in which the tourism and accommodation sector finds itself due to the global pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, and because the digital age and sustainability must coexist with post-covid-19 tourism, entailing changes in the way we relate to each other and to the destination, manuscripts that provide a medium and long-term vision about these subjects will be welcomed.
Dr. Francisco González Santa Cruz
Dr. Antonio Menor Campos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable tourism;
- Hospitality industry;
- Digital age;
- Tourism impacts;
- Tourism development;
- Responsible tourist behavior;
- Tourism innovation.
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