Antonio Guevara Plaza

• University of Malaga

This open-access book presents the best research papers from the XIV International Congress on Tourism and Information and Communications Technologies (TURITEC2023), held in Málaga, Spain from 19 to 20 October 2023. The book explores the profound impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry and the increasing importance of digitalization and Informat...

This study aims to move forward a blockchain tourism research and add understanding regarding blockchain adoption in the tourism industry. Grounded theory method based literature review was applied as a research methodology. Based on the literature review, the authors developed a conceptual model of blockchain adoption in tourism by defining casual...

Con el auge del uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) y un nuevo escenario en el que las zonas urbanas se superponen a las áreas rurales en términos de volumen poblacional, nuevas necesidades emergen, y con ellas nuevos modelos urbanos y económicos como lo son las Smart Cities, las Smart Destinations, o el Smart Tourism....

The paper discusses the benefits of blockchain technology for medical tourism. The major focus is placed on pre-procedure and post-procedure of medical tourism. The authors argue that blockchain technology can facilitate several stages of medical tourism by enabling disintermediation, allowing cryptocurrency payments, ensuring secure data sharing a...

Despite in the last decade there was a significant increase in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature, little attention has been devoted to shed light on strategic CSR practices in the hospitality industry, especially in the context of developing countries. This paper uses a case-study methodology to investigate CSR practices of eight...

Accommodation is one of the main sectors affected by the emergence of platform economies. This issue has been addressed by many researchers, but they have mainly focussed on Airbnb and large cities. Thus, there is a need for research on medium-sized cities and how they have been affected by the growth of short-term rental (STR) homes. Using officia...

Achieving sustainable tourism is a process that focuses on numerous goals and faces many challenges. The advent of disruptive technology like blockchain could help to tackle some challenges in sustainable tourism development and address its goals. This conceptual paper aims to discuss how blockchain technology could contribute to sustainable touris...

Traditional travel agencies and tour operators are recognized as relevant stakeholders in the tourism distribution chain, even though their role as transforming agents in the achievement of more sustainable tourism is beginning to be accepted. This study aims at reviewing the main topics and the most recent approaches from the academic literature i...

This conceptual paper discusses the potential of blockchain technology for Smart Tourism Destinations. The main focus is placed on Smart Tourism Destinations’ four major goals that can be achieved by using blockchain technology, namely: enhancing tourism experience, rewarding sustainable behaviour, ensuring benefits for local communities, and reduc...

Traditional travel agencies and tour operators are recognized as relevant stakeholders in the tourism distribution chain, even though their role as transforming agents in the achievement of more sustainable tourism is beginning to be accepted. This document collects the main topics and the most recent approaches from the academic literature in its...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss critically, based on a review of recent literature on the topic, the challenges faced by urban tourism destinations with regards to eTourism and new technologies.

Conflictos en la ciudad turística desde la perspectiva de los movimientos sociales locales Esta investigación aborda los conflictos generados por el crecimiento turístico reciente en la ciudad turística desde la perspectiva de los movimientos sociales locales. Para ello primero, se revisan estos procesos de crecimiento, con especial atención a la...

Los rankings de hoteles ejercen gran influencia sobre los turistas a la hora de elegir un hotel. Los hoteleros también se esfuerzan por aparecer en lo más alto de la clasificación. Sin embargo, la evolución de estos rankings a lo largo del tiempo ha sido poco estudiada, por lo que es necesario profundizar en su análisis debido a las importantes imp...

The purpose of this research is to make an approximation between the local development (LD) and tourism in order to determine if the tourism can be a strategy in the LD. In the document is presented the evolution, conception and elements of LD. As an added value, the main methodologies applied in these studies have been synthesized. It has been pro...

El ranking de hoteles de TripAdvisor, ha sido analizado desde múltiples perspectivas, pero son pocos los investigadores que han estudiado su evolución temporal. Este artículo presenta uno de los primeros trabajos sobre la movilidad en los rankings de hoteles. Dis¬tinguimos entre rankings líquidos, y sólidos, definimos la Movilidad de un ranking, di...

Human capital and its level of training is a critical success factor in the tourism sector, however, training needs analysis and their relationship with information technology has not been treated widely in the scientific literature by the tourism academics. For this reason, the goal of this study is to shed more light on the role of gender, age an...

Despite the crucial role of information technology in tourism, there is a gap in the scientific literature about training need analysis triggered by the use of IT. This papers aims to create an initial framework of digital competencies for the tourism sector, which could serve to detect and measure IT training needs. To this end, it proposes a list...

El objetivo de este artículo es resaltar el valor estratégico que posee el Big Data para el sector turístico. El creciente volumen de información generada a nivel global, derivada de la huella digital debe verse como una oportunidad para adaptarse al nuevo perfil del turista, más dinámico, exigente y conectado que busca experiencias integrales y pe...

This document is the result of the Training Curriculum Design for All project, which follows the publication of five White Books on Design for All in Universities in 2010, which considered the incorporation of Design for All in five university curricula. The project is starting during a period of change in the European university system. Universit...

En una sociedad donde las TIC y el turismo están cada vez más extendidos y se han convertido en factores de globalización, este artículo pretende mostrar la relación que existe entre ambos elementos. Para ello se han examinando distintas fuentes que reflejan el grado de implantación de las TIC en las empresas turísticas andaluzas. Asimismo, se exam...

Resumen: Según diversos estudios y encuestas realizadas en los últimos años, una de las necesidades formativas más demandas por el sector turístico son las relacionadas con las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC). A esto hay que unir el impacto que las mismas han tenido en la oferta y la demanda turística en las últimas décadas...

Actualmente existen aplicaciones orientadas al turismo basadas en realidad aumentada, pero no integran técnicas de recomendación. Este artículo describe RAMCAT (Realidad Aumentada Móvil Contextual Aplicada al Turismo) un modelo de guía turística, que recomienda puntos de interés, teniendo en cuenta factores como preferencias personales y atributos...

Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) is a new paradigm which provides satisfactory results in software development. However, most experiments with MDWE towards the development of software from the requirements to the implementation stages. However, in practice, sometimes software development does not follow this classic path. In this paper, MDWE is...

Los enfoques actuales de gestión de la documentación multilingüe hacen uso de la traducción humana, la traducción automática (TA) y la traducción asistida por ordenador (TAO) para producir versiones de un solo documento en variosidiomas. Sin embargo, losrecientes avances en generación de lenguaje natural (GLN) indican que es posible implementarsist...

In this paper we present an algorithm for the generation of molecular graphs with a given value of the Wiener index. The high number of graphs for a given value of the Wiener index is reduced thanks to the application of a set of heuristics taking into account the structural characteristics of the molecules. The selection of parameters as the inter...

In this article we will discuss the best methodologies for assisted database design in which the user is actively involved. This work is part of the research carried out by our development group, whose aim is not only to involve users in design specification tasks within their own company, but also, and much more importantly, make them aware of the...

This work attempts to give a new direction to the analysis and design of Business Information Systems by substituting traditional techniques with more participatory techniques based on cooperation. In order to attain this objective, a review of organisational structures is suggested, as well as the use of cooperative methodology for the development...

Information systems within a company, and specifically the correct setting up of information technologies, often present a fundamental problem, especially when a change is about to occur within the information system. On many occasions these changes bring about a decrease rather than an increase in productivity.

Resumen La construcción de esqueletos básicos de compiladores es una labor que ha sido ampliamente superada tras los estudios teóricos de Chomsky sobre gramáticas, y el desarrollo posterior de multitud de herramientas, llamadas metacompiladores (Yacc, Bison, byacc, PRE-CC Xtended, etc.), cuyo objetivo es el de generar programas que reconozcan si un...

In this article we will discuss the best methodologies for assisted database design in which the user is actively involved. This work is part of the research carried out by our development group, whose aim is not only to involve users in design specification tasks within their own company, but also, and much more importantly, make them aware of the...

RESUMEN El presente trabajo está enmarcado dentro de una línea de investigación sobre herramientas CASE, mediante las cuales sean los propios usuarios los que definan de forma cooperativa sus necesidades y métodos de trabajo, de forma que el personal informático coordinador, se dedique a labores de supervisión y afinación. Como última etapa de este...

Estudio sobre las características de la red Internet, desde su historia hasta distintos servicios que presta al usuario. También presenta distintos navegadores y las posibilidades que ofrecen algunos servidores de búsqueda de información en la red. También ofrece una sistematización de información sobre turismo, como formación y educación en turism...