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Paving the Way for the Post-COVID-19 Era
The COVID-19 epidemic has caused a significant and profound change in the worldwide tourism sector, leading to a transition from excessive tourism to a state of non-tourism. Consequently, previously bustling t...
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Introduction
According to the Cambridge dictionary [5], the lexical meaning of “smart” is “intelligent, or able to think quickly or intelligently in difficult situations”. In Greek, “smart” also can be translated as “ ...
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Artificial Intelligence in Smart Tourism
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely employed with efficacy across diverse domains. The field of smart tourism has the potential to be significantly transformed through the utilisation of AI. This is not sur...
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Open Questions and Future Directions
As this book has delved deeply into the realm of smart tourism, with a secondary focus on smart cities, addressing key facets and intricacies within these domains, we now stand at a pivotal juncture, a chapter...
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Conclusions
Smart tourism has become a buzzword, but because the sector is so vast, everyone interprets it differently and has different understandings. There is a lack of an official and comprehensive conceptualization o...
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Conceptualizing Smart Tourism
Although “smart tourism” has become a catchphrase, multiple interpretations and understandings exist, making it more of a nebulous term than a field with firm foundations. Aiming to contribute to the smart tou...
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Mobile Applications in Smart Tourism: Implementing User Modelling
Currently, there are 6.8 billion smartphone users worldwide while, at the same time, people of all ages actively engage with social networking sites for business, socialising, dating, politics, and simple day-...
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Implementing Machine Learning for Smart Tourism Frameworks
Considering that Artificial Intelligence is a game-changer in the smart tourism business, one of our key contributions is the formal presentation of frameworks that leverage AI technologies in the context of s...
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Mobile Applications in Smart Tourism and Smart Cities Based on Crowdsourcing
At the time of writing, there are 6.8 billion smartphone users worldwide and projections indicate that this number will surpass seven billion by 2024 [21]. That being the case, we focused on investigating how thi...
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Smart Tourism Embraces Blockchain
Blockchain, also known as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), has garnered significant interest from scholars and professionals in various industries. Given this circumstance, our primary objective was to mak...
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Smart Tourism and Artificial Intelligence: Paving the Way to the Post-COVID-19 Era
In these last years, we are witnessing the constant evolution of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, IoT, and cloud computing. At the same time, before the COVID-19 cris...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing a Smart Tourism Mobile Application: User Modelling Through Social Networks’ User Implicit Data
In an era facing data and information explosion, there is a demanding need to filter and adapt the content presented to users while interacting with mobile applications. Offering a personalized User Experience...