International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 5 Issue 4

Marketing smart tourism cities – a strategic dilemma

J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak

The phenomena of overtourism: a review

Rachel Dodds, Richard Butler

The purpose of this paper is to examine the emergence of overtourism, outline the issues and contributing factors, as it relates to cities, and to suggest possible mitigation…

Creativity, innovation and smartness in destination branding

Lino Trinchini, Natalia Andreevna Kolodii, Natalia Aleksandrovna Goncharova, Rodolfo Baggio

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of creativity and innovation as important attributes of smartness in cities/destination branding.

The significance of the contribution of children to conceptualising the destination of the future

Hugues Seraphin, Sarah Green

As there is a growing demand of cutting-edge technology as part of the tourism experience from the digital native population and because little is known about this group as…

Smart destination brands: semiotic analysis of visual and verbal signs

Ulrike Gretzel, Maria Collier de Mendonça

Smart tourism is a destination management approach that requires the buy-in of a myriad of stakeholders. Its many audiences and complexity demand the creation of meaningful brands…

Overtourism management competencies in Asian urban heritage areas

Walter Jamieson, Michelle Jamieson

Urban heritage areas are under significant pressure as a result of increasing populations and significant visitor growth. The growth in visitor numbers is of particular concern as…

Cities and tourism, a love and hate story; towards a conceptual framework for urban overtourism management

Frederic Bouchon, Marion Rauscher

Overtourism is a term that has emerged in media over the past few years. Issues of carrying capacity that were limited to tourism sites have recently spread to places with no…

Investigating visitors’ perception of smart city dimensions for city branding in Hong Kong

Chung Shing Chan, Mike Peters, Birgit Pikkemaat

The purpose of this paper is to understand the perceptions of visitors in terms of multiple aspects of smart cities to allow wise decisions to be made about smart tourist…

Strategies and measures directed towards overtourism: a perspective of European DMOs

Christian Eckert, Daniel Zacher, Harald Pechlaner, Philipp Namberger, Jürgen Schmude

Due to both the new quality and intensity overtourism discussions have received, it is time to examine the question concerning the consequences this development has on destination…

The Phygital experience in the smart tourism destination

Francisco Javier Ballina, Luis Valdes, Eduardo Del Valle

Information communication technologies (ICTs) of destination are not a mere mechanism of technical interaction; they are, above all, new mixed realities that integrate physical…

Monaco’s struggle to become a smart destination

Nathalie Fabry, Cyril Blanchet

Monaco is a simultaneously a destination, a state and a city, which belongs to the long list of places that aims to become smart. The purpose of this paper is to present Monaco’s…

The co-management and stakeholders theory as a useful approach to manage the problem of overtourism in historical cities – illustrated with an example of Krakow

Jaroslaw Plichta

The development of tourism is emerging in some places of the world’s destinations and the problem of overtourism is an expression of the mechanisms and behaviours of entities in…