Journal of Smart Tourism
Journal of Smart Tourism aims to advance cutting-edge research examining how smart technology transforms the tourism industry, reshapes business models, and influences behavior within business networks and travel services, including innovations in design, products, devices, and processes.
Drawing from both end-user (traveler) and organizational perspectives, the journal explores theoretical and empirical foundations of smart tourism ecosystems, with particular focus on smart cities, heritage preservation, historic urban centers, and sustainable environments. The journal welcomes research that develops new methodologies or synthesizes existing knowledge to advance not only technology-driven tourism but also authentic aspects of general hospitality, leisure, sports, entertainment, and other tourism-related fields. This includes contextual studies of tourist behavior patterns, communication protocols, media preferences, and travel decision-making processes. These insights enable tourism and hospitality organizations to develop innovative business models and applications for the AI-powered smart tourism era.Journal of Smart Tourism is to promote top-notch research in areas where smart technology may challenge the tourism industry, transform business, and induce behaviors that focus on business networks, travel services, as well as other areas such as design contents, products, devices, and process innovation. To address this particular purpose, the journal will provide theoretical and empirical foundations from end-users (i.e., travelers) and organizational perspectives with technology and systems for smart cities, smart ecosystems, heritage and historic cities, and a sustainable environment. The development or application of new methodologies or a synthesis of existing bodies of knowledge will enrich not only technology-enhanced tourism but also contextual inquiries with regard to potential tourists’ behavior patterns, communication protocols, their media preference, and their decision-making process in traveling. Based on this, tourism and hospitality business and organization will synthesize new business models and applications to migrate toward smart tourism.
Therefore, Journal of Smart Tourism attempts to provide underlying guidelines in smart tourism that will allow all of tourism & hospitality species to create valuable tourism business.
Below are the covered topics:
• Smart technologies in tourism and travel
• Cultural tourism and IT
• Spatial tourism
• Heritage tourism and IT
• Tourism and hospitality product and service and IT
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Robots and service automation
• Leisure tourism and IT
• Sharing economy in tourism
• Smart tourism cities
• Smart tourism destinations
• Smart tourism marketing
• Smart tourism stakeholders and competitiveness
• Smart tourism and urban contexts
• Smart mobility and transportation
• Smart tourism and service design
• Smart tourism and Covid-19
• Concepts and theories of smart tourism
• Case studies of smart tourism
• Technologies for design tourism
• IT architecture and models for design tourism
• Design business models and the role of IT
• Business intelligence for design tourism technologies and services
• Electronic brokerage and marketplaces for tourists, agencies, and vendors
• Swarms, social network services and collective decision-making
• IT architecture and models for smart tourism such as e-tourism or smart services
• The role of IT in smart tourism business models
• Network analysis of a networked tourism industry
• Developments and barriers regarding interoperability and standards
• Acceptance, adoption, diffusion, and infusion of tourism technologies, products, or devices
• Ensuring privacy and security in smart tourism infrastructures
• Impact of smart technologies on traditional tourism
• Research methods for the analysis of design tourism-related phenomena
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| Namho Chung | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Ulrike Gretzel | University of Southern California, USA |
| Mingming Cheng | Curtin University, Australia |
| Tarik Dogru | Florida State University, USA |
| Lawrence Fong | University of Macau, Macau, China |
| Cindy Heo | EHL Hospitality Business School, Switzerland |
| Kelly Min | California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA |
| Jin-Young Kim | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Cece Leung | University of North Texas, USA |
| Liang Sai | Nankai University, China |
| Taehyee Um | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Yerin Yhee | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Seung-hun Shin | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| Faizan Ali | University of South Florida, USA |
| Seyhmus Baloglu | University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA |
| Lorenzo Cantoni | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Gurel Cetin | Istanbul University, Turkey |
| Catherine Cheung | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| Oscar Hengxuan Chi | University of Florida, USA |
| Hyo Dan Cho | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Yeongbae Choe | Gachon University, South Korea |
| Sunkyung Choi | Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan |
| Yeasun K Chung | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Noga Collins-Kreiner | University of Haifa, Israel |
| Giacomo Del Chiappa | University of Sassari, Italy |
| Basak Denizci Guillet | Griffith University, Australia |
| Brian Donnellan | Maynooth University, Ireland |
| Martin Falk | University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway |
| Alei Fan | Purdue University, USA |
| Yan Feng | Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China |
| Sebastian Filep | Bond University, Australia |
| Luiz Filho | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| Alan Fyall | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Chiara Giachino | Università di Torino, Italy |
| Kok Beng Goh | Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China |
| Guosheng Han | Shandong University, China |
| Sunyoung Hlee | Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
| Taeho Hong | Pusan National University, South Korea |
| Alex Yang-Chan Hsu | National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan |
| Feiyu Hu | APU university, Japan |
| Mingming Hu | Guangxi University, China |
| Yaou Hu | Thompson Rovers University, Canada |
| Nan Hua | University of Central Florida, USA |
| William Cannon Hunter | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Johye Hwang | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| YooHee Hwang | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| Jichul Jang | Kansas State University, USA |
| Seongsoo Jang | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| Chul Jeong | Hanyang University, South Korea |
| Timothy Jung | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
| Juhee Kang | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Hidekazu Kasahara | Osaka Seikei University, Japan |
| Bora Kim | University of Surrey, UK |
| Hany Kim | Pusan National University, South Korea |
| Hyunsu Kim | California State University, Fullerton, USA |
| Jinkyung Jenny Kim | Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China |
| Jinok Susanna Kim | Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China |
| Jinwon Kim | University of Florida, USA |
| Junchul Kim | Brunel University, UK |
| Jungkeun Kim | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Juyoung Kim | University of Porthmouth, UK |
| Minseong Kim | Louisiana State University Shreveport, USA |
| Myung Ja Kim | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Sun-Hwa Kim | Coastal Carolina University, USA |
| Taekyung Kim | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Yoo Ri Kim | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Brian EM King | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Jookyung Kwon | Dongguk University, South Korea |
| Rob Law | University of Macau, Macau, China |
| Dongwon Lee | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China |
| Eunji Lee | Kyung Hee University, Korea |
| Hanna Lee | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Kyoungmin Lee | Shandong University, China |
| Kyung Young Lee | Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Minwoo Lee | University of Houston, USA |
| Seoki Lee | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Seul Ki Lee | Sejong University, South Korea |
| SoJung Lee | Iowa State University, USA |
| Woojin Lee | Arizona State University, USA |
| Yong-Ki Lee | Sejong University, South Korea |
| Tiffany Legendre | University of Houston, USA |
| Daniel Leung | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| Gang Li | Deakin University, Australia |
| Mimi Li | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
| Xiang (Robert) Li | Temple University, USA |
| An Yu Liu | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China |
| Feng Liu | Shandong University, China |
| Lu Lu | Temple University, USA |
| Tsz-Wai Lui | National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan |
| Hisashi Masuda | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Anna S. Mattila | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Jihye (Ellie) Min | University of North Texas, USA |
| Yoonjae Nam | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Juan Nicolau | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA |
| Chihyung Michael Ok | Temple University, USA |
| Hossein Olya | The University of Sheffield, UK |
| Ahmet B. Ozturk | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Bing Pan | The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Jaehyun Park | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China |
| Jiyong Park | University of Georgia, USA |
| Kwangsoo Park | Purdue University Northwest, USA |
| Sangwon Park | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Seunghyun Park | St John's University, USA |
| Soyoung Park | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Juho Pesonen | University of Eastern Finland, Finland |
| Vicente Ramos | University of the Balearic Islands, Spain |
| Olaf Reinhold | Leipzig University, Germany |
| Kaede Sano | Wakayama University, Japan |
| Paco Serra | University of Alicante, Spain |
| Dongsun Shin | Sehan University, South Korea |
| Hailey Shin | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China |
| Hakseung Shin | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Minjung Shin | University of Houston, USA |
| Shi Si | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China |
| Mohammad Soliman | University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Sultanate of Oman |
| Hyoung Ju Song | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Joan Su | Iowa State University, USA |
| Yulia Sullivan | Baylor University, USA |
| Jamie Sun | California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA |
| Aaron Tham | University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| Iis Tussyadiah | University of Surrey, UK |
| Dan Wang | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
| Yao-Chin Wang | University of Florida, USA |
| Jose Weng-Chou Wong | Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China |
| Hung-Che Wu | Nanfang College Guangzhou, China |
| Eunjung Yang | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Jun Yang | Liaoning Normal University, China |
| Sung-Byung Yang | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Yang Yang | Temple University, USA |
| Jihwan Yeon | Sejong University, South Korea |
| Chul Woo Yoo | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Kyung-Hyan Yoo | William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA |
| Yang Zhang | Soochow University, China |
| Lina Zhong | Beijing International Studies University, China |
| Rainer Alt | Leipzig University, Germany |
| Claudia C. Brözel | University of Sustainable Development, Germany |
| Dimitrios Buhalis | Bournemouth University, UK |
| Cihan Cobanoglu | University of South Florida, USA |
| Colin Michael Hall | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Cathy Hsu | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
| Stanislav Ivanov | Varna University of Management, Bulgaria |
| Jim Jansen | The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Xinran Lehto | Purdue University, USA |
| Fevzi Okumus | University of Central Florida, USA |
| H. Raghav Rao | The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Marianna Sigala | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Giampaolo Viglia | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Zheng Xiang | Virginia Tech, USA |