dc.contributor.author
González Reverté, Francesc
dc.date
2020-01-09T13:16:51Z
dc.date
2020-01-09T13:16:51Z
dc.identifier.citation
González-Reverté. (2019). Building Sustainable Smart Destinations: An Approach Based on the Development of Spanish Smart Tourism Plans. Sustainability, 11(23), 6874. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11236874
dc.identifier.citation
2071-1050
dc.identifier.citation
10.3390/su11236874
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10609/105126
dc.description.abstract
The aim of this research is to assess the real effects of developing smart tourism destinations on urban sustainability. A content analysis method is used to analyze 994 initiatives contained in action-plan and strategy documents from different smart tourism pilot projects funded by Spanish tourism administration. The results indicate that, despite the noteworthy effort to develop smart initiatives, sustainability solutions based on the use of technology are scarcely proposed, suggesting that cultural, managerial and technological barriers do exist. Overall, smart tourism plans are mainly conceived as instruments designed to create new tourism products in a tourism-driven approach. Despite the institutional narrative promoting smart tourism destinations as a guarantee to transform destinations responding to residents' needs and improve sustainability, pilot projects undergo little interest in holistic sustainable initiatives, suggesting that destination management is focused on a rhetorical approach to sustainability.
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application/pdf
dc.publisher
Sustainability
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/</a>
dc.title
Building Sustainable Smart Destinations: An Approach Based on the Development of Spanish Smart Tourism Plans
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
