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
| Chulmo Koo | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Yeongbae Choe | Gachon University, South Korea |
| Luiz Filho | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| Sunyoung Hlee | Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
| Jichul Jang | Kansas State University, USA |
| Jinwon Kim | University of Florida, USA |
| Jungkeun Kim | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Yoo Ri Kim | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Dongwon Lee | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China |
| Hanna Lee | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Minwoo Lee | University of Houston, USA |
| Seoki Lee | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| SoJung Lee | Iowa State University, USA |
| Woojin Lee | Arizona State University, USA |
| Tiffany Legendre | University of Houston, USA |
| Mimi Li | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
| An Yu Liu | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China |
| Tsz-Wai Lui | National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan |
| Kelly Min | California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA |
| Juan Nicolau | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA |
| Hossein Olya | The University of Sheffield, UK |
| Jiyong Park | University of Georgia, USA |
| Kwangsoo Park | Purdue University Northwest, USA |
| Seunghyun Park | St John's University, USA |
| Vicente Ramos | University of the Balearic Islands, Spain |
| Olaf Reinhold | Leipzig University, Germany |
| Kaede Sano | Wakayama University, Japan |
| Hakseung Shin | Hanyang University, Korea |
| Shi Si | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China |
| Hyoung Ju Song | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Eunjung Yang | Kyung Hee University, South Korea |
| Yang Yang | Temple University, USA |
| Jihwan Yeon | Sejong University, South Korea |
| Dan Wang | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |