What is Smart Tourism

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It is the type of tourism that requires the integration of many factors and components such as high-level physical and information technology infrastructure services, well-trained human resources, effective management understanding and leadership spirit, effective promotion and marketing practices, cooperation between stakeholders and environmental awareness. Learn more in: Smart Tourism Destinations: A Literature Review on Applications in Turkey's Touristic Destinations

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Refers to the application of information and communication technology (ICT), mobile communication, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, for developing innovative tools and approaches to improve tourism. Learn more in: Augmented Intelligence: Leverage Smart Systems

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A type of tourism supported by efforts in order to collect data from physical infrastructure, social connections, state/organization resources and the human mind. Learn more in: COVID-19 and Alternative Tourism: New Destinations and New Tourism Products

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Creating augmented tourist product through collecting, combining, or processing data smart or mobile phones in order to ensure sustainability and efficiency issues. Learn more in: Smart Tourism in Destinations: Can It Be the Way Forward?

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It is a type of tourism where smart technologies (IoT, mobile apps, big data, etc.) are used by destinations, tourism enterprises, public and private organisations and tourists in tourism activities and services. Learn more in: Accessible Tourism Experiences in Smart Destinations: The Case of Breda (Netherlands)

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Comprises the use of technologies within the tourism activity in order to enhance experiences at the destination. Learn more in: Post-Pandemic Re-Positioning in a Cultural Tourism City: From Overtourism to E-Tourism

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Is a concept related to a specific destination, attraction or the technological abilities of tourists, and it is the type and policy of tourism expressed by the widespread use of information and communication technologies. Learn more in: The Rise of Digitalization in the Tourism Industry During COVID-19: Cyber Space, Destinations, and Tourist Experiences

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Smart tourism is physical tourism, social connections, state/organization resources and tourism supported by efforts in a destination for gathering data from the human mind. Learn more in: Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, and Smart Destinations as Knowledge Management Tools

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A tourism model that brings together a set of paradigms geared towards a more sustainable, efficient, and inclusive organization, supported by technology, connectivity, innovation, governance, and creativity, with the aim of making the destinations more resilient, competitive, and better places to live. Learn more in: Inland and Island Tourism, Contrasting Geographies Touching Each Other: Azores, a Peripheral Archipelago

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Measures based on smart solutions for the tourism industry. Learn more in: European Capital of Smart Tourism: An Initiative to Promote the Tourism Industry

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A more fitting achievement of tourist information and services, promoting the development of intelligent tourism and self-service travel. Enriched information access together with new tourists’ profiles, to increase knowledge of tourist behaviour regarding their spatial and temporal distribution in the destinations. Smart tourism exposes individuals as information makers, filtering the existing options for tracking their position. Learn more in: Smart Cities and Accessible Tourism: A Systematic Review

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A type of tourism supported by efforts in an estimation to collect physical infrastructure, social connections, state / organization resources and human mind data. Learn more in: Smart Applications in Tourism

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Describe the increasing reliance of tourism destinations, their industries and their tourists on emerging forms of IT that allow for massive amounts of data to be transformed into value propositions. Learn more in: Perspectives of the Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Tourism Sector

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An innovative development to forge smart destinations. This helps consumers to time-maximization process in the quest and interpretation of global information. Smart tourism is vital for consumers to reach rational choices or optimizing results in the decision making process. Learn more in: Isle of the Dead: A Study of Trunyan Cemetery (Bali)

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Smart tourism within the new technological framework refers to the competitive advantage that comes from using Smart technologies such as sensors, beacons, mobile phone apps, radio frequency identification (RFID), near-field communication (NFC), smart meters, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), cloud computing, relational databases, etc., that together form a smart digital ecosystem that fosters data-driven innovations and supports new business models (Gretzel, 2018, p.173). Learn more in: Gamification as a Tool for Smart Tourism

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Smart tourism aims to develop information and communication infrastructure and capabilities in order to improve management/ governance, facilitate service/product innovation, enhance the tourist experience, and, ultimately, improve the competitiveness of tourism firms and destinations. Learn more in: COVID-19 and Its Employment Dimension in the Tourism Sector

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The digital interconnectedness of all the web of the tourism industry including activities, resources, actors and e-tourism products and services in a selectively and specifically targeted way. Learn more in: Digitalisation in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Perspectives of the Supply and Demand Sides

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A new model of delivering tourism services characterized by the integration of ICT technologies into the tourism business value proposition to enable tourists to communicate and interact more closely with residents, local businesses, local government, and tourist attractions in cities. Learn more in: The Development of Smart Tourism Destinations Through the Integration of ICT Innovations in SMEs of the Commercial Sector: Practical Experience From Central Italy

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Smart tourism refers to the formation that enables both tourists and residents to participate more effectively in tourism activities through information communication technologies by making digital tourism more social, accelerating information exchange and feedback, and providing more effective solutions to tourism problems. Learn more in: A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review About Smartness in Tourism

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It is reliant on core technologies such as ICT, mobile communication, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. It supports integrated efforts at a destination to find innovative ways to collect and use data derived from physical infrastructure, social connectedness, and organizational sources (both government and non-government), and users in combination with advanced technologies to increase efficiency, sustainability, experiences. Learn more in: Tourist Experience and Digital Transformation

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It is tourism supported by the use of technology combined with integrated efforts by destinations to collect, aggregate and harness data from physical infrastructure, social connections, governmental and organizational sources, human bodies and minds, with the aim of transforming this data into on-site experiences and business value propositions focused on efficiency, sustainability and differentiating experiences ( Gretzel et al., 2015a ). Conceptualized by Ödemis (2022) : Learn more in: Smart Cities: How Can Low-Density Territory Populations Be Smart Tourist Destinations? The Case of Guarda

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Smart Tourism has focused on the use of advanced technologies to transform data into efficient new business models by using and evaluating data collected through physical infrastructures and social connections. Learn more in: Technological Developments: Industry 4.0 and Its Effect on the Tourism Sector

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A specialized type of tourism that supported by advanced technology to collect and exchange information in order to increase the real experience of the traveler. Learn more in: Network Analysis of Destination Management Organization Smart Tourism Ecosystem (STE) for E-Branding and Marketing of Tourism Destinations

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Tourism based on smart applications of information and communication technologies (ICT). Learn more in: Are New Cartographies Strengthening a Sustainable and Responsible Island Tourism?

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The application of communication and computer science methods for the development of tools that are used in tourism. Learn more in: Machine Learning for Smart Tourism and Retail

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smart tourism is defined as tourism supported by physical infrastructure, social connections, public resources, and efforts in a destination to collect data from the human mind. Learn more in: Plan, Do, Watch: Making Tourism Sustainable Through Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

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A new way of practicing tourism that enables tourists to access the services and information regarding their tour more conveniently thanks to some advanced technologies and interactive/participative management. Smart tourism does not only deal with tourists but also with residents. Tourists’ and residents’ wishes and needs can be understood more accurately in a smart setting due to advanced technology and interactive/participative management. Learn more in: A New Concept in Tourism: Smart Tourism Destinations

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It relies on new technologies such as ICT, mobile communication, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality in order to provide tourist sufficient in the destinations. Learn more in: Smart Municipalities in Tourism

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Creation of a smart experience, described as an experience facilitated by technologies, and improved by personalization. Learn more in: Smart and Sustainable Tourism Destinations: A Bibliometric Analysis