Overview
- Explores how ICTs offer a powerful tool for the development of smart tourism
- Offers numerous examples from across the entire spectrum of cultural and heritage tourism
- Outlines products, services, and strategies for stimulating innovation
- Emphasizes the importance of the smart destinations concept and the knowledge economy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (SPBE)
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Table of contents (32 papers)
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Tourism Business Environment—Current Developments and Experiences
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Methodological Frameworks, Tools and Approaches for Sustainable Tourism Management
Keywords
- Smart tourism
- ICT applications in tourism
- Cultural and heritage tourism
- Tourism marketing and development
- Third International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism
- IACuDiT 2016
- International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism
- Smart destinations
- Knowledge economy
- Cultural and digital tourism marketing
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amitabh Upadhya has over 30 years of experience in the Travel & Tourism Industry and Higher Education. He holds a PhD in Tourism Management from the University of Lucknow, India. He joined Skyline University College in Sharjah, UAE, in 2003 and is currently Professor and Dean at the College. He has long experience of university accreditation processes at the national and international levels and in 2008 received an Academic Leadership Award for his contribution to higher education administration. Over the past decade he has been involved in the planning, operations, and management of Business Management courses at graduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels. His recent research has focused on Destination Organizations, Destination Image and Branding, and the political, economic, and cultural influences on Destination Policies and Management. He has published a number of papers on these topics in refereed journals and has alsowritten on Air Travel Management and Travel Agency Management, areas where he has extensive industry experience.
Anastasia Stratigea is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. She holds a Diploma in Surveying Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD from NTUA for work on ICTs and regional development. Her research interests include Sustainable Development, Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Planning, Management of Cultural and Natural Resources, Tourism and Regional Development, ICTs and Tourist Development, and ICT Applications in the Urban Context. She has participated in a number of EU and national projects relating to planning and policy in the energy, tourism, agricultural, and transport sectors, tourist development, urban and regional development, etc. She has published her work in international conference proceedings and journals.She has been a member of the scientific committees of international conferences and is a reviewer for various international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tourism, Culture and Heritage in a Smart Economy
Book Subtitle: Third International Conference IACuDiT, Athens 2016
Editors: Vicky Katsoni, Amitabh Upadhya, Anastasia Stratigea
Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47732-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47731-2Published: 22 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83808-3Published: 03 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47732-9Published: 21 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-7246
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7254
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 496
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tourism Management, Cultural Heritage, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Cultural Economics, Cultural Management, e-Business/e-Commerce