Tourism, AI and Other Disruptive Events: The Main Consequences from These Transformative Events

Dear Colleagues,

The tourism sector has been completely transformed by countless phenomena, such as the advent of digital marketing, which has allowed every company direct contact with the customer. In this way, the length of the sales channel and the need for additional intermediaries has been reduced.

The advent of artificial intelligence is further transforming the tourism sector. Adding to this, other different types of disruptive events, such as COVID-19 and the financial crisis, have changed tourism businesses. Thus, we have many different events that have changed the landscape of tourism.

This Special Issue invites both empirical and theoretical contributions aimed at highlighting the changes already implemented and potential new ones in tourism businesses, as well as related markets due to these events.

These changes may be of different types. In particular, we are looking for, but not limited to, submissions that highlight these changes with a focus on management, business, accounting, organization and public aspects.

All submissions will be evaluated by the guest editors on a rolling basis.

Submissions should consist of theoretical or applied research in a large range of tracks and topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Digital marketing and tourism and hospitality business development
• Artificial intelligence and transformation of tourism sector
• Financial crises and impacts on tourism and hospitality
• Disease crises and tourism downturn
• Crisis events and its effects on tourism and hospitality sector
• Public administration and tourism businesses in facing crises

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Felicetta Iovino
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Koufopoulos
Guest Editors

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