Leisure Involvement and Smart Tourism
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 79
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tourism management; tourism marketing management; multi-criteria decision making; management decision science; fuzzy multi-objective programming; agricultural tourism
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: tourism destination management; tourism survey and statistics; homestay management; hotel service psychology; leisure tourism industry development; cruise tourism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Leisure involvement refers to an individual’s level of investment or concentration in leisure-related activities. This refers to people's interest, enjoyment, and level of involvement in recreational activities. Leisure involvement significantly varies both from person to person and across different activities. For example, it could involve deep engagement in adventurous exploration activities, participation in nature or cultural trips, immersion in accommodation or culinary experiences, or focusing on sports, board games, or competitive gaming as recreational activities.
The synergy between modern technology and smart leisure has resulted in a transformative enhancement of leisure and entertainment experiences overall. From the consumer's perspective, smart leisure travel brings about diverse entertainment experiences and benefits. These include, for instance, engaging in leisure activities with e-commerce platforms or different communication software, experiencing unique and captivating leisure with AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) technologies, enhancing efficiency in leisure experiences with smart travel tools, designing itineraries using AI tools such as ChatGPT, and mitigating travel and leisure risks by using intelligent setups. From a manager’s perspective, smart leisure travel helps save labor costs and provides scientific and innovative marketing strategies. For example, it generates new prospects for marketing travel destinations, innovates the general travel experience for tourists, mitigates risks in leisure travel, and assists in deepening consumer experiences, understanding consumer preferences, expanding consumer leisure domains, and enhancing the sustainability of travel destinations.
Overall, the combination of leisure participation and smart travel can create a more personalized, enjoyable, efficient, safe, sustainable, and forward-looking leisure experience. This integration aims to satisfy and fulfill various consumer benefits such as individual preferences, flow experiences, diverse leisure activities, experience satisfaction, service convenience, efficient travel quality, sustainable tourism, destination attachment, and loyalty.
This Special Issue warmly welcomes original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Leisure involvement and benefits;
- Leisure involvement and attachment;
- The sustainable development of leisure activities;
- Preferences in leisure behavior;
- Leisure motivation;
- Smart leisure involvement;
- Sustainable smart tourism;
- Smart tourism destinations;
- Smart tourism and consumer behavior;
- Leisure travel and communication software;
- Leisure travel and social media;
- Leisure travel and e-commerce platforms;
- Virtual reality in the tourism industry;
- Smart technology in leisure resource planning;
- Smart technology and marketing;
- Smart technology and the development of the sustainable tourism industry;
- Smart technology and service quality;
- Smart technology and risk management.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ching-Cheng Shen
Dr. Dan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart leisure involvement
- sustainable smart tourism
- leisure travel
- smart technology
- sustainable tourism industry
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