. Please find further details below.
* Chulmo Koo, Kyung Hee University, South Korea,
helmetgu@khu.ac.kr
Theme
This special issue seeks to offer comprehensive insights into tourism supply, demand, and markets, through a spatial-temporal-psychological (STP) lens in the digital era. Smart tourism refers to tourism supported by integrated efforts at an ICT-enabled destination (smart destination). It involves the collection, exchange, and processing of data, offering technology-mediated tourism experiences (smart experience), and interconnecting stakeholders in the business ecosystem (smart business) (Gretzel et al., 2015). As tourism involves visitors' spatial movements between places, geospatial technologies (e.g., GPS-equipped smartphones) can gather data about tourists, firms, and their spatial interactions. A clear understanding of the geospatial aspects of smart tourism activities will provide vital insights for destination planning, marketing, and management (Yang et al., 2023). In smart destinations, various actors, such as tourism firms (e.g., Booking.com, Airbnb), tourists, and natural or constructed environments engage in immersive interactions, which can be monitored through the use of geospatial technologies, personal digital gadgets, and digital/social networking platforms (e.g., Google, Facebook).
This special issue aims to advance the field of geospatial smart tourism by making new insights and methodological contributions on how and why ICT mediation affects or changes spatio-temporal patterns in smart tourism contexts. As spatial configurations can significantly influence perceptions, decisions, and behaviors (Ebert et al., 2022), we encourage researchers to enhance their understanding of tourism suppliers and buyers by integrating spatio-temporal data from location-aware devices with qualitative and experimental data (Koo et al., 2021; Tilly et al., 2015). Furthermore, researchers can explore the root causes of spatially heterogeneous visitor behaviors by incorporating relevant psychological mechanisms (Jang & Kim, 2022) and conducting experimental studies (Jang et al., 2021), alongside utilizing geospatial data. In addition to established tools like Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial econometrics (Koo et al., 2023), this issue delves into the potential of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), which refers to spatially explicit AI techniques used for geographic knowledge discovery and beyond (Janowicz et al., 2020). Applications of GeoAI can accelerate the real-world understanding of the smart tourism field by integrating spatio-temporal data with AI techniques (e.g., machine learning & deep learning) to extract valuable geographical insights (Gao, 2021; VoPham et al., 2018). Consequently, both theoretical frameworks and practical applications necessitate novel insights into the spatio-temporal ("where and when"), geo-psychological ("where and why"), and geoAI ("where and so what") approaches within the realm of smart tourism.
Central issues and topicsElectronic Markets is a Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)-listed journal (IF 8.5 in 2022) in the area of information management and information systems. Submissions should be original, unpublished, and not under consideration at any other journal. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are welcome, provided the research exhibits strong methodological rigor. Contributions can take the form of conceptual and theoretical development papers, empirical hypothesis testing, position papers, case-based studies, and more. All papers which pass the desk-reject phase will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Submissions must be made via the journal's submission system (
https://www.editorialmanager.com/elma/) and comply with the journal's formatting standards. Authors should clearly indicate that their submission is intended for the special issue on Smart Tourism. The preferred average article length is approximately 10,000 words, excluding references. Instructions, templates, and general information are available at
https://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/general-information/. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this special issue, you may either contact the guest editors or the Editorial Office.
Keywords: Smart tourism, geospatial data, spatio-temporality, geo-psychology, GeoAI
Important deadline
* Submission deadline: October 31, 2024
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