Special Issue "Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality in the Digital Age"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Francisco González Santa Cruz
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Guest Editor
Department of Business Administration, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence, ceiA3. Faculty of Law and Business Administration, University of Cordoba. St. Puerta Nueva, s/n. E-14071-Córdoba, Spain
Interests: analysis of tourism and cultural activities in economic development
Dr. Antonio Menor Campos
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Guest Editor
Department of Agrarian Economics, Finance and Accounting, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence, ceiA3, Faculty of Law and Business Administration University of Cordoba St. Puerta Nueva, s/n. E-14071-Córdoba, Spain
Interests: analysis of tourism, sustainability and new economic models in sharing economy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to become a forum for the advancement of scientific knowledge by incorporating papers related to two key variables in the field of tourism and hospitality: sustainability and the digital age. Likewise, proposals that seek to analyse, among other issues, the possible causal and/or consequential relationships between them, will be welcome.

In recent decades, we are witnessing the emergence and consolidation of new forms to understand the tourism, away from the traditional mass travel, and this is accompanied by technological development, improvements in transports and communication, and the globalization process. Currently we cannot speak of tourism in general ignoring further aspects which help specify the type of tourism. So, new tourist segments have developed such as heritage tourism, gastronomic tourism, nature tourism, collaborative tourism, and so on. And this development will be dwarfed by the possibilities that sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, social networks, etc. will bring. Either way, despite the potential of these tools for tourism development, we cannot ignore the sustainability requirement that tourist destinations should manage strategically since the attractiveness for tourists may end up disappearing due to the lack of medium and long term vision of tourism managers. And, within this necessary sustainability, inclusive aspects that involve the participation of the local community must be included both in decision-making matters of its management and in the equitable socio-economic use that tourism may entail.

For this reason, the goal of this Special Issue is to provide scientific studies that help understand the variable of tourism sustainability in a world increasingly digitized, where events like an accumulation of negative or positive opinions in social networks can have important consequences for the tourist development of a certain destination. In any case, we cannot forget the special situation in which the tourism and accommodation sector finds itself due to the global pandemic of COVID-19. Therefore, and because the digital age and sustainability must coexist with post-covid-19 tourism, entailing changes in the way we relate to each other and to the destination, manuscripts that provide a medium and long-term vision about these subjects will be welcomed.

Dr. Francisco González Santa Cruz 
Dr. Antonio Menor Campos
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Sustainable tourism;
  • Hospitality industry;
  • Digital age;
  • Tourism impacts;
  • Tourism development;
  • Responsible tourist behavior;
  • Tourism innovation.

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Fostering Voluntourism Satisfaction and Future Behaviour in Island Destinations
Sustainability 2021, 13(5), 2767; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052767 - 04 Mar 2021
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Volunteer tourism, which is commonly referred to as voluntourism, is currently a dynamic alternative travel option with a focus on sustainable tourism. However, existing literature reveals that voluntourism activities do not meet tourists’ expectation, fail to provide experiences related to environmental issues, and [...] Read more.
Volunteer tourism, which is commonly referred to as voluntourism, is currently a dynamic alternative travel option with a focus on sustainable tourism. However, existing literature reveals that voluntourism activities do not meet tourists’ expectation, fail to provide experiences related to environmental issues, and thus, leads to their dissatisfaction. Realising the importance of the satisfaction of the voluntourists’ future behaviour, applying the volunteer function inventory, coupled with environmental concern, the authors aim to identify factors influencing voluntourists’ satisfaction and present the outcomes of voluntourists’ satisfaction among island visitors in Malaysia. Using a purposive sampling method, the data were collected through a survey among voluntarists in east coast island tourist destinations. A total of 278 valid questionnaires were gathered from two sessions of data collection process. Due to the model’s complexity, SEM-PLS version 3.3.2. was employed to analyse the hypotheses of the study. The results of the study revealed that career and social functions, in contrast with other variables, do not positively influence the voluntourists’ satisfaction. The continuous intention and the intention to recommend factors positively support the research model. Studies on voluntourists in Malaysian island destinations are relatively novel. Besides enriching the literature on voluntourism, which is particularly scarce especially in the Asian setting, the findings are also beneficial to local governments and voluntourism organisations to develop suitable approaches and policies to promote voluntourism in island destinations. The study is limited to the island destination setting. Future studies should focus on other destinations such as cultural and heritage sites, because these destinations have sentimental values that should be preserved. Full article
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