Description
Identify core elements of a smart tourism system and discuss the role/significance of digitalization/artificial intelligence within the model. Offer insights on the significance of a transformation perspective in the system.
You should offer your views on whether all innovation should relate to digitalization or whether a more hybrid (mixed with non-technological elements) stance can also be feasible, particularly in the context of a desiring a lasting transformational outcome, in the current times.
Also, you are required to refer to the chaos and complexity and other relevant theories and briefly describe their usefulness to understand/cope with the sudden shocks to a tourism system. Discuss how TLC (tourism life cycle) is impacted by these shocks such as the pandemic and how a smart tourism system can address or proactively make an effort to plan strategies to address a disequilibrium state that can occur at any stage of the TLC. Your suggested strategies should embrace a transformational perspective? 20 Points
Minimum number of references including required readings: eight
Please draw reflection/insights/discussion points based on the required readings
Include one YouTube video (link) or media article to support your views – 3 points
Autoethnography approach – 2 Points
For your paper, you are required to keep the following in mind:
What effort did you make to be self-reflexive of your views? (Hint- refer to the autoethnography approach journal article