Overview
- Examines how innovative ICTs represent a powerful development tool for the tourism and leisure sector
- Describes strategies that utilize these technologies to foster sustainable tourism management
- Places emphasis on the concept of sustainable destinations
- Presents informative case studies on e-tourism and e-leisure
- 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 (42 papers)
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Cultural Heritage Tourism Management
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Smart Tourism—Current ICT Developments of Tourism in a Sustainability Context
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kathy Velander has nearly 30 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy and is involved in projects worldwide, advising communities on how, when, and where to develop ecotourism. Her emphasis is on capacity building, developing ecotourism experiences and products, and helping communities to address their training needs. Her work has spanned projects in Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Nepal, and Fiji. Within Europe she helped produce a development strategy for the Setomaa eco-villages project in Estonia and was consultant researcher on improving the competitiveness of community-based tourism in Estonia and Finland. Her work in the UK has included teaching sustainability concepts to local communities and researching various aspects of tourism events and initiatives. On this basis, she has developed a Tourism Resource Auditing Methodology (TRAM) to assist decision making on whether tourism is the best way forward in
encouraging sustainable livelihoods. This process is now being used in the Scottish Scenic Routes initiative.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovative Approaches to Tourism and Leisure
Book Subtitle: Fourth International Conference IACuDiT, Athens 2017
Editors: Vicky Katsoni, Kathy Velander
Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67603-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67602-9Published: 31 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88455-4Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67603-6Published: 29 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-7246
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7254
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 581
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations
Topics: Tourism Management, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Cultural Heritage, e-Business/e-Commerce