Just destination is a tourism destination whose tourism planning, policy making and practices of all stakeholders of tourism development enable the fair treatment of its environmental, social, economic, cultural resources, both tangible and intangible. The focus of planning and development of just destination is on well-being of place, people and pasts( Barton & Leonard, 2010 ; Jamal & Camargo, 2014 ).
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Smart Tourism Planning: Geographical Evidence From Poland
Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała (University of Lodz, Poland), Tomasz Napierała (University of Lodz, Poland), Sevda Sahilli Birdir (Mersin University, Turkey), and
Kemal Birdir (Mersin University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1989-9.ch022
Abstract
This chapter discusses geographical context of smart tourism planning through the analysis of relations between spatial planning, tourism development, and technology. The main question addressed in this enquiry is whether development of technology and tourism respects sustainable spatial planning. Thus, geographical influence of tourism and ICT on spatial planning was investigated. Research is carried out in Poland as tourist destinations in the country are substantially different regarding their tourist attractions, infrastructure, and development. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) was applied to identify regions where spatial planning is significantly influenced by tourism, and technology development as well. Both mentioned phenomena were recognized as competing in terms of spatial planning. Tourism and technology development did not support spatial planning parallely. Hence, establishing and developing smart tourism planning was confirmed as challenging from the geographical perspective.