The Vision and the Perspective of Digital Tourism

TL;DR

This paper explores the interdisciplinary scientific research and technological trends in digital tourism, emphasizing the importance of ICT-based methods and analyzing the development of digital tourism in Russia and globally, with a case study of St. Petersburg.

Contribution

It highlights the relevance of digitalization in tourism, identifies key trends and directions, and demonstrates technological implementation through a specific case study.

Findings

Growing scientific interest in digital tourism globally and in Russia

Identification of key technological trends in digital tourism

Case study of St. Petersburg illustrating digital tourism implementation

Abstract

The dynamics of the modern information society changes the usual areas of human activity, generates various innovations based on the widespread use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Virtually, every activity today is technology related. In these conditions, scientific activity is also changing. Digitalization processes act as integrative to various scientific directions, which form the base for interdisciplinary scientific research. The study of their formation is an important scientific task aimed at predicting the development of both science and society as a whole. In this study, based on the integrated use of ICTs, we consider methods of the terminology base analysis in various interdisciplinary research directions on the instance of tourism in the digital age. The development of scientific interest in the area of digital tourism in Russian and global scientific discourses is also compared. The purpose of this paper is to proof the relevance of scientific study in the field of tourism digitalization, to identify the generic directions and trends of digital tourism, and to specify technologies for the implementation of digital tourism using the case study of St. Petersburg.