IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rcitxx/v25y2022i17p2717-2732.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Smart destinations: a new planning and management approach?

Author

Listed:
  • Jennifer Caroline Soares
  • Thays Cristina Domareski Ruiz
  • Josep Antoni Ivars Baidal

Abstract

A combination of factors, including the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on tourism and the need to enhance innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability, have given rise to the need to search for new avenues for the planning and management of destinations. These may include smart destinations (SDs), undoubtedly related to the increase in smart city projects and the buzzword ‘smart tourism’. The objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which the SD truly constitutes a new approach, based on a systematic and integrative review of the scientific production that associates SDs with the planning and management of destinations, particularly those studies analysing the development of initiatives applied to SDs. The study concludes that this is an emerging approach with differential attributes. However, its consolidation and future orientation depend on the closing of certain research and application gaps.

Suggested Citation

  • Jennifer Caroline Soares & Thays Cristina Domareski Ruiz & Josep Antoni Ivars Baidal, 2022. "Smart destinations: a new planning and management approach?," Current Issues in Tourism, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(17), pages 2717-2732, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:25:y:2022:i:17:p:2717-2732
    DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2021.1991897
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13683500.2021.1991897
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13683500.2021.1991897?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:25:y:2022:i:17:p:2717-2732. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rcit .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.