International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 2 Issue 2

Smart tourism destinations: ecosystems for tourism destination competitiveness

Kim Boes, Dimitrios Buhalis, Alessandro Inversini

Grounded in service-dominant (S-D) logic, the purpose of this paper is to explore the core components of smartness to present a framework for the development of the smart tourism…

Sharing economy in geotag: what are the travelers’ goals sharing their locations by using geotags in social network sites during the tour?

Namho Chung, Hyunae Lee

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate what triggers tourist’s use of geotag as an information sharing tool in social media.

Analyzing the influence of electronic word of mouth on visit intention: the mediating role of tourists’ attitude and city image

Shabnam Doosti, Mohammad Reza Jalilvand, Ali Asadi, Javad Khazaei Pool, Parisa Mehrani Adl

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how electronic word of mouth (e-WOM), attitude, and city image affect tourists’ intention to visit a tourism city.

Tourism disaster resilience scorecard for destinations (TDRSD): the case of Manta, Ecuador

Estefania Mercedes Basurto-Cedeño, Lori Pennington-Gray

The purpose of this paper is to develop nine criteria for tourism disaster resilience scorecard for destinations (TDRSD) by using the “disaster resilience scorecard for cities…

Mobile tourist guide supporting a smart city initiative: a Brazilian case study

Andréa Cacho, Luiz Mendes-Filho, Daniela Estaregue, Brunna Moura, Nélio Cacho, Frederico Lopes, Cristiano Alves

– The purpose of this paper is to describe a smart city initiative presenting a mobile tourist guide developed for Natal, Brazil.

Application of smart tourism to cities

Ulrike Gretzel, Lina Zhong, Chulmo Koo