The idea of smart tourism destination derived from the concept of smart city, as technology has become an enabler of development of tourism destinations ( Boes et al. 2015 ).Smart tourism destination is focused on e-tourism, where the consumers are very familiar with new technologies, and use them permanently. It contains multiple components, like reservations systems, social media, various communication and connection applications etc. ( Gretzel et al. 2015 ).
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Smart Tourism Planning: Geographical Evidence From Poland
Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała (University of Lodz, Poland), Tomasz Napierała (University of Lodz, Poland), Sevda Sahilli Birdir (Mersin University, Turkey), and
Kemal Birdir (Mersin University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1989-9.ch022
Abstract
This chapter discusses geographical context of smart tourism planning through the analysis of relations between spatial planning, tourism development, and technology. The main question addressed in this enquiry is whether development of technology and tourism respects sustainable spatial planning. Thus, geographical influence of tourism and ICT on spatial planning was investigated. Research is carried out in Poland as tourist destinations in the country are substantially different regarding their tourist attractions, infrastructure, and development. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) was applied to identify regions where spatial planning is significantly influenced by tourism, and technology development as well. Both mentioned phenomena were recognized as competing in terms of spatial planning. Tourism and technology development did not support spatial planning parallely. Hence, establishing and developing smart tourism planning was confirmed as challenging from the geographical perspective.