Innovation strategies and technology for experience-based tourism

✍ Scribed by Yeoryios Stamboulis; Pantoleon Skayannis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0261-5177
• DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5177(02)00047-x

✦ Synopsis

Tourism is undergoing significant change and facing new challenges-that call for new perspectives. At least two dimensions of the change can be identified:

* new forms of tourism, characterized by the tendency to depart from mass tourism; * the diffusion of information and communication technologies, with a pervasive effect on the creation, production and consumption of the tourist product.

The limited success of most attempts to exploit produced windows of opportunity indicates that we are facing a pre-paradigmatic phase of transition. Innovative attempts gain new strategic value when viewed from a perspective that values experience as an important new attribute. Such a perspective has significant consequences for the growth of destination strategies, policies, and the integration of the information-society dimension.