Technological Innovations Application in the Tourism Industry of Bangladesh

Md Yusuf Hossein Khan (), Johura Jabin Anika and Azizul Hassan
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Md Yusuf Hossein Khan: IUBAT— International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
Johura Jabin Anika: IUBAT— International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
Azizul Hassan: The Tourism Society

Chapter Chapter 6 in Technology Application in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Bangladesh, 2021, pp 97-109 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Tourism and technology is diligently allied since the growth is recognized in both areas over the past few decades. Technology has facilitated to reduce costs, boost up the productivity, and improve services and tourist familiarity. Technology and innovation has abetted tourism industry to substitution expensive human labor with high-tech labor globally. Moreover, digital technologies can help foster an environment for new innovation and entrepreneurship in tourism industry. The aim of this paper is to see if this technological innovation application will help to propagate and breed the tourism in Bangladesh into a new dimension. The rapid development of digital technology has been expediting global tourism industry to move forward. At present, tourism development is quit impossible and unmanageable without the application of innovations and technologies. Some popular technological innovation such as artificial intelligence, augmented or virtual reality, the IoT (Internet of Things), robotics, sensor technology, block chain, user generated contains (social media) has already reformed the approach of production, distribution and consumption. Technological innovation can create a huge benefit in promoting tourism destinations in a better strategy, especially which are connected with the management problem of tourist streams and in the sustainable tourism development. This paper was based on comprehensive literature review mainly focusing on peer-reviewed journal articles, books and conference papers. Results of the research can support making the tourism industry if Bangladesh as more advanced with the application of technological innovations.

Keywords: Tourism; Technology; Innovation; Development; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2434-6_6

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