Tourism and Hospitality for Sustainable Development: Emerging Trends and Global Issues: Vol 2. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Tourism and Hospitality for Sustainable Development: Emerging Trends and Global Issues: Vol 2

The tourism and hospitality industry is fast undergoing disruptive transformation as a result of the advances in information and communications technology. The aim of this book is to highlight how digital transformation trends as well as the issues that have emerged with the adoption and integration of digital tools in the tourism and hospitality industry. With the advent digital technologies following the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), there has been rapid change in the way customers and businesses interact in terms of the timeliness and relevance for communication. Although the positive effects of digital transformation have received sustained scholarly interest, its negative effects have attracted limited academic focus.

The book comprises contributions that generate theoretical insights, empirical findings, and evidence-based recommendations by focusing on emerging and forecasted technologies that are used in the tourism and hospitality industry, such as blockchain, robots, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, big data, and analytics, among others. The book could be useful for future research to focus on the impact of different forms of digital technology by examining their socio-cultural and environmental effects. Building on prior research, the chapters in this volume extrapolate current studies on digital development to provide more linkage to tourism and hospitality.

Emmanuel Ndhlovu is a scholar and student of development. His research interests are in peasant and informal sector livelihoods, land reform issues, political economy, digitalisation of industries, and food sovereignty. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of South Africa. At the time of writing, Emmanuel was with the Vaal University of Technology as a postdoc researcher.

Kaitano Dube is an Associate Professor at the Vaal University of Technology under the Ecotourism Management Department. He has successfully hosted five post-doctoral and supervised several Post Graduate Students at the Master's and PhD Levels. He is a visiting professor at Emirates Aviation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Chandigarh University in India. He holds several editorial and Associate Editorial Positions with several international journals. His research interests are in tourism, climate change, sustainability and aviation. Prof Dube is a university leader who has served in several senatorial and research roles. He is also a curriculum expert who has shaped programs of several universities in the SADC region and abroad.

Catherine Kifworo (PhD) is an emerging researcher and a tourism management lecturer from Maasai Mara University, Kenya. At the time of writing, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Vaal University of Technology, South Africa, under the Department of Tourism and Integrated Communication. She is a mixed methods researcher whose research interests include domestic tourism, climate change, sustainable tourism and tourism policy. She has also published several articles in these areas.