• Journal of Smart Tourism
• /
• 제4권2호
• /
• pp.35-45
• /
• 2024

This study explores the nexus between governance, technology, and resilience in smart tourism destinations, elucidating how smart governance can bolster destination adaptability and resilience. Through a quantitative approach and an extensive questionnaire survey, governance and resilience dynamics, along with ICT roles, are scrutinized across Spanish tourism destinations. Results highlight the pivotal role of adaptable governance structures and strategic planning in driving successful smart initiatives. Diverse adoption patterns and varying effectiveness levels underscore the necessity for tailored approaches. By providing actionable insights, this research empowers policymakers and destination managers to enhance destination resilience and competitiveness through ICT-driven governance strategies.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
• /
• 제4권1호
• /
• pp.7-18
• /
• 2024

This study examines Natal in Brazil as a Smart Tourism Destination (STD) based on the perception of public and private managers who are members of the City Tourism Council. The research utilizes a systemic perspective of STD proposed by Ivars-Baidal et al. (2016), consisting of three interconnected levels: Strategic-Relational, Instrumental, and Applied. The findings reveal that Natal faces challenges in terms of infrastructure, accessibility, security, connectivity, and sensoring, which hinder its progress as STD. The study also identifies opportunities in the form of governance structures with smart destinations and the inclusion of smartness guidelines in the City Master Plan. The research aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of STD and its application in destination development. It highlights the need for innovative planning and management in Natal, emphasizing that adopting the STD from a systemic perspective can enhance competitiveness and elevate the level of smartness in the destination.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
• /
• 제25권1호
• /
• pp.163-178
• /
• 2015

This paper specifically delineated the methodological application of constructivism in smart tourism studies. It explained what constructivism is and how this methodology could be applied in the study of smart tourism. In this study, residents of Seoul participated in constructivist research using the Q method to identify their subjectivities toward Seoul based on photographs most commonly found in tourism promotional material. Residents are concerned with good governance and cultural integrity, and they are aware of their role as stakeholders in tourism in their communities. However their potential contribution to destination image formation has been usually overlooked by researchers and marketers. Three clusters of subjectivities were revealed after 42 photographs of Seoul were sorted by 37 respondents. The results show how respondents perceived Seoul's destination image. The three clusters agreed that symbolic monuments were the key representations of Seoul. The paper recommends that tourism marketers and policy makers should focus on understanding and coordinating with residents' perceived image of Seoul as a destination when planning and decision making, especially in promoting Seoul as a destination market. This study, in conjunction with other constructivist research offers insight into how destination image is, especially with the rise of smart tourism, a complex social construction.

• 동남아시아연구
• /
• 제20권2호
• /
• pp.135-178
• /
• 2010

This study is to seek alternatives for regional governance related to transnational labor migration issues in Southeast Asia. This study examined the present situation and trends of labor migration in the region, reviewed involved transnational issues, and identified the current issues of governance to seek alternatives for regional governance. The increase in cross-border labor migration is no doubt a sign of growth and dynamism of the region and greater integration of their economies. But it also poses complex policy and management issues as well as transnational issues over such as unequal economic profits, illegal migration, human rights, and social security issues. In this reality, regional governance is a very important theme and the efforts to manage their migration inherently involve fundamental conflict and tension between related countries and regions. However, politics and governance of transnational migrant workers in Southeast Asia are still pursued at the national level. To resolve these issues, it is urgently required to secure not only collaboration between the parties concerned but also governance at the regional level. Findings of this study are: First, although labor migration has been a relatively long-time transnational issue, the history of addressing the issue at the regional governance is very short and still inceptive. Second, given its size, labor migration in Southeast Asia requires effective regional governance but no breakthrough was possible due to the conflict of interests between origin and destination countries and the conflict of logic between the labor market and the state. Third, the issue of labor migration is an important element for the formation of economic and socio-cultural communities the ASEAN countries have pursued. Fourth, it is urgently needed to seek alternatives for good and effective regional governance as a key to resolving these issues over migrant workers in Southeast Asia.

• Journal of Korea Trade
• /
• 제24권8호
• /
• pp.63-80
• /
• 2020

Purpose - Recent empirical studies have shown that FDI is expected to be strongly associated with democratic governance, political stability, and sound macroeconomic conditions of the host country. We attempt to take it a step further to see if governments implement a major change in institutional characteristics, will the institutional reform toward better governance have a substantive effect in enhancing FDI inflows. This paper thus aims to analyze the importance of good governance as an important factor in the attractiveness of FDI inflows in ASEAN+3 (Korea, China, Japan) countries. Design/methodology - To determine the effects of good governance on FDI inflows across ASEAN+3 countries recorded between 1996-2018, the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are used to investigate the impact of good governance on FDI inflows. The model has been estimated by using fixed effects to show the robustness of the results. Findings - Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Political Stability, Rule of Law, and Voice and Accountability have a statistically significant impact on the inflow of FDI in the ASEAN+3 Countries, especially for Korean economy. Moreover, GDP growth continue to exert their positive influence. However, Regulatory Quality, Government Effectiveness and Control of Corruption, though equally important, are insignificant to attract FDI inflows. The key finding is that good governance has a significant impact on inward FDI in the ASEAN+3 countries. Originality/value - Existing studies focus on the impact of political factors on FDI across countries. This paper instead attempts to investigate which type of good governance is the most important in promoting FDI inflows across ASEAN+3 countries, which is essential for multinationals to consider when choosing a foreign site as a possible FDI destination.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
• /
• 제2권1호
• /
• pp.5-19
• /
• 2022

Smart tourism is seen as a revolution in the tourism industry, involving innovative and transformative theoretical-practical approaches for the sector. As a result of its application in the tourist context, benefits can be seen such as more sustainable practices, greater mobility and better accessibility in destinations, evolution of processes and experiences of tourists. Much of this is achieved through the support of technological solutions. However, despite the immense expectations, and the many researches carried out on it, a literature summary regarding the dimensions that can be observed in each application of this smart tourism has not yet been proposed. Therefore, supported by the PRISMA recommendation, this research proposed to carry out an integrative review of the literature on smart tourism (in its different levels of application, such as the city, the destination and the smart tourism region), with the objective of mapping the dimensions that underlie it. Thus, from an initial scope of 833 intellectual productions obtained, inputs were found for the dimensions in 363 of them after a thorough analysis. The compilation of data obtained from these productions supported the proposition of 14 operational dimensions of smart tourism, namely: collaboration, technology, sustainability, experience, accessibility, knowledge management, innovation management, human capital, marketing, customized services, transparency, safety, governance and mobility. With this set of dimensions, it is envisaged that the implementation of smart tourism projects can present more comprehensive and assertive results. In addition, shortcomings and opportunities for new research that support the evolution of the theory and practice of smart tourism are highlighted.

• 지식경영연구
• /
• 제21권3호
• /
• pp.45-65
• /
• 2020

가치가 상승하는 와인에 투자하는 것은 바람직하지만 우리나라에서는 와인 투자 자체가 생소하다. 또한, 와인시장에서의 가격책정은 소수에 의해 이루어지기 때문에 과정 자체가 비합리적이고, 정보가 위조되는 경우가 흔하다. 그러나 올바른 해결책만 있다면 와인시장은 오래 투자할수록 높은 수익을 기대할 수 있다는 점에서 바람직한 투자처가 될 수 있다. 또한, 국내 와인수입량의 꾸준한 증가추세를 통한 국내 와인 소비시장의 확대 또한 기대된다. 본 연구는 앞서 말한 우리나라의 와인 투자 시장의 '올바른 해결책'으로 와인시장 활성화 및 투명성 제고를 위한 컨소시엄 블록체인 프레임워크를 제시한다. 블록체인 거버넌스는 바람직한 의사결정권과 책임성을 보장하기 때문에 와인시장의 단점을 보완해줄 수 있다. 블록체인에 저장된 데이터는 소비자가 모두 확인할 수 있기 때문에 위조와인의 등장 가능성을 낮추고 불합리적으로 가격이 책정되는 과정을 보완한다. 또한 자산의 디지털화로 낮은 현금유동성을 해결하며 스마트 컨트랙트를 통해 공급망 전반의 비용과 시간을 절약하게 되어 와인투자의 진입장벽이 낮아진다. 특히 컨소시엄 블록체인을 통해 블록체인의 거버넌스를 '샤또-유통업자-투자자'로 구성한다면 바람직한 와인 시장을 형성할 수 있다. 생산과정을 블록체인에 저장하여 생산비용을 확보하고 합리적인 출시가를 정하며 유통과정을 블록체인에 저장하여 물류시스템을 효율적으로 운영하고 선물거래 주문량을 예측한다. 마지막으로 투자자들은 이 모든 데이터를 열람함으로써 합리적인 의사결정을 한다. 이는 와인경매시장에 있어서 주요 이해관계자들간의 지식공유체제로서 작동할 수 있는 가능성을 제시하고 있다. 해당 연구에서는 소유권을 주식처럼 다룰 수 있다는 점에서 대체투자의 새로운 관점을 제시했다. 또한 정보의 투명성을 제고시킬 방안으로써 와인 소유 매매 프레임워크를 제시하였고 식품 수입절차의 간소화와 와인 업계 내 신뢰 형성을 가능하게 했다. 해당 프레임워크를 통해 와인 관련 정보들을 투명하게 기록함으로써 활발한 와인투자가 이루어질 수 있을 것이며 이는 지식경영 측면에서 큰 의의를 가진다. 향후 연구에서는 해당 프레임워크를 확장해 적용할 분야를 연구하고자 한다.