ICT Applications in Smart Ecotourism Environments

Vicky Katsoni and Natali Dologlou ()
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Natali Dologlou: Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

A chapter in Smart Cities in the Mediterranean, 2017, pp 225-244 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Radical technological developments and their applications can largely contribute to a more effective management of challenges currently faced by our planet. Nevertheless, the light has up to now been shed on urban environments, mainly due to the rapidly evolving urbanization trends and related consequences; while the implications of Information and Communication Technologies (ΙCT) in rural areas and communities, although quite promising, are less explored. In the present paper, the focus is on that type of environments, and more specifically on the role ICT can play for the protection of valuable ecosystems that are forming the ground for ecotourism development. Ecotourism embraces the principles of Sustainable Tourism (ST), as an alternative tourism form that is largely concerned for the economic, social and, most importantly, environmental impacts of this sector. Preserving ecosystems’ values in ecotourism destinations imply the need for steadily monitoring ecotourism developments and associated impacts in such destinations, with ICT offering important tools for accomplishing such a task. In this respect the paper aims, by reviewing a range of the academic reports and literature, at deriving crucial aspects that need to be dealt with in a variety of ecotourism dimensions; and matching them with a range of relevant ICT-enabled tools and applications. The results of this conceptual paper reveal the key ICT-enabled tools/applications for managing ecotourism destinations, thus setting the ground for case-specific policy directions towards an environmentally-responsible ecotourism development.

Keywords: Rural areas and communities; ICT tools and technologies; Smart ecotourism development; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54558-5_11

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