Prospects And Challenges In Smart Tourism In India: Case Study Of Smart City Bhubaneswar

Rashmi Ranjan Choudhury, Saurabh Kumar Dixit
2018 Zenodo  
In the fast moving developmental world the new form 'smart tourism' become more popular globally. The technological advancement and immense use of ICT in tourism directs smart tourism in that direction only, even it has some other dimensions. Although the previous researches defined the term smart tourism, the aspects like destination smartness, tourist and stakeholder's smartness need to be focused for the better achievement of the goal. Smart tourism also directs towards the innovative use of
more » ... technology in resource optimisation, sustainability, good governance and quality of life in the tourism industry. This paper defines the smart tourism and its practices in Indian context putting light on tourism trends, information services and the other aspects. Smart tourism is a rapidly growing concept in the developed countries moreover in the developed smart cities. The model of smart city also adopted in India to progress the nation from different aspects. The temple city 'Bhubaneswar' achieved number one rank in the smart city project initiated by Govt. of India, also the fastest growing city in eastern coast of India. From the ancient times the city has significant name tourism and in recent years the potentialities growing enormously. The conceptual study focuses on the smart tourism practices in the smart city and importantly the prospects and challenges come in the way of smart tourism also discussed. This paper extends the previous researches on smart tourism and draws attention for further study on smart tourism development and management.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.1244121 fatcat:kg5konnoijdqlprxqavqftlpfi