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Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps

Dissertation (MSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism))--University of Pretoria, 2021.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/81811 Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps Harris, Karen Leigh danolienv@gmail.com Van den Berg, Danolien UCTD Heritage and Cultural Tourism Fourth Industrial Revolution Tourism 4.0 Sustainable tourism Best practice Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Dissertation (MSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism))--University of Pretoria, 2021. Technological advancement has directly contributed to the exponential growth of the global tourism industry. This growth has led to tourism scholars, practitioners and local communities calling for sustainable tourism development. However, technologies, especially those of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, can also contribute to the sustainable development and management of the global tourism industry. Slovenia’s pioneering Tourism 4.0 initiative is perhaps the newest and most cutting-edge examples of how technology can be used in order to more sustainably develop and manage tourism to the advantage of a destination’s local communities. This initiative, said to be the future of tourism, makes use of the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to provide a highly innovative and technologically enhanced tourist experience as well as to turn tourism into a driver of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, there is a distinct lack of accessible academic publications in the English language on this initiative. This dissertation therefore draws together several disciplines and foci to make Tourism 4.0 accessible, relevant and more apparent to the broader tourism domain by unpacking and considering the initiative’s potential for destinations beyond Europe and the global North. This is done by conducting a best practice assessment of Tourism 4.0 using criteria that have been developed to align with the UN SDGs. Historical and Heritage Studies MSocSci (Heritage and Cultural Tourism) Unrestricted 2021-09-14T09:02:51Z 2021-09-14T09:02:51Z 2022 2021 Dissertation Van den Berg, D 2021, Searching for sustainability: Tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps, Masters dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria* A2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81811 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
Heritage and Cultural Tourism
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Tourism 4.0
Sustainable tourism
Best practice
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps
title Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps
title_full Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps
title_fullStr Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps
title_full_unstemmed Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps
title_short Searching for sustainability : tourism 4.0 on the Sunny Side of the Alps
title_sort searching for sustainability tourism 4 0 on the sunny side of the alps
topic UCTD
Heritage and Cultural Tourism
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Tourism 4.0
Sustainable tourism
Best practice
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81811