
Tourism Technology, Sustainability, and Local Community Empowerment
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 19. June 2026
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-1-041-11726-1 (ISBN)
Description
This timely book critically explores how smart tourism technologies can create more inclusive, empowered communities, helping local residents benefit from and participate in the tourism economy while ensuring sustainability. To achieve this, it examines the role of digital platforms, smart infrastructure, and advanced technologies like AI, IoT, and big data in enhancing local engagement, sustainability, and economic growth through tourism. It further looks at how technology plays an increasingly critical role in shaping not only tourist experiences but also community participation in the tourism economy from current practices to future innovations. This is supported by case studies from around the world, showing challenges as well as how technology can drive both the tourism sector and the empowerment of local communities.
This book is of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academics of tourism, development studies, and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management.
This book is of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academics of tourism, development studies, and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
37 s/w Tabellen, 35 s/w Zeichnungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 36 s/w Abbildungen
37 Tables, black and white; 35 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-11726-1 (9781041117261)
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Additional editions

Hafizullah Dar | Kuldeep Singh | Babu George
Tourism Technology, Sustainability, and Local Community Empowerment
E-Book
approx. 06/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download

Hafizullah Dar | Kuldeep Singh | Babu George
Tourism Technology, Sustainability, and Local Community Empowerment
E-Book
approx. 06/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Hafizullah Dar, PhD, is currently holding a position of Assistant Professor in Tourism and Airlines, School of Hotel Management and Tourism, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India.
Kuldeep Singh, PhD, currently serves as Assistant Professor in Amity School of Hospitality, Amity University, Haryana, India.
Babu George, PhD, is Professor at Alcorn State University, USA.
Kuldeep Singh, PhD, currently serves as Assistant Professor in Amity School of Hospitality, Amity University, Haryana, India.
Babu George, PhD, is Professor at Alcorn State University, USA.
Content
1. Leveraging Social Capital for Virtual Destination Promotion: A Case Study of Community-Based Tourism in Tra Vinh, Vietnam 2. Understanding Consumer Preferences in Mall Selection for Urban Tourism: A Case Study in Semarang, Indonesia 3. Co-Creation for Sustainable and Inclusive Tourism: Exploring the Nexus of Learning, Collaboration, and Stakeholder-Driven Innovation 4. Blockchain-Enabled Frameworks for Local Community in Tourism: Integrating Decentralization, Tokenized Incentives and Transparent Governance 5. Digital Transformation Determining the Future of Empowered Tourism Communities: A New Era for Museum Management 6. Public-Private Collaboration for Smart Resource Management in Tourist Destinations 7. Virtual Reality in Tourism Marketing: A Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Current Trends 8. Platforms of Promise: Digital Communication Strategies and the Empowerment of Local Entrepreneurs in Tourism 9. From Screens to Suitcases: Examining the Impact of Digital Marketing on Travel Intentions among Youth Tourists 10: The Rise of Technology and Local Communities in Tourism 11. Double AI Simulations Supported by Synthetic Data in Smart Tourism Innovation for Corporate Foresight 12. Sentient Systems and Cultural Sentinels: Ethical Architectures of AI in Asian Experiential Tourism 13. The Empathic Destination: AI, NLP, Sentiment Analysis, and Community Voice in the Future of Tourism 14. Visualising the Research Landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Community Based Tourism