Transformative smart rural tourism in adversity of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Cvar, Nina (avtor), Stojanova, Simona (avtor), Trilar, Jure (avtor), Kos, Andrej (avtor), Stojmenova Duh, Emilija (avtor)

The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced the need for sustainable, smart tourism and local travel, with rural destinations gaining in their popularity and leading to increased potential of smart rural tourism. However, these processes need adjustments to the current trends, incorporating new transformative business concepts and marketing approaches. In this paper we provide real life examples of new marketing approaches, together with new business models within the context of the use of new digital technologies. Via hermeneutic research approach, consisting of the secondary analysis of the addressed subject of smart rural tourism in adversity of the COVID-19 and 6 semi-structured interviews, the importance of technology is underscored in transforming rural tourism to smart rural tourist destinations. The respondents in the interview section were chosen based on their direct involvement in the presented examples and geographical location, i.e. France, Slovenia and Spain, where presented research examples were developed, concretely within European programmes, i.e. Interreg, Horizon and Rural Development Programme (RDP). Interviews were taking place between 2022 and 2023 in person, email or via Zoom. This two-phased study demonstrates that technology is important in transforming rural tourism to smart tourist destinations and that it ushers new approaches that seem particularly useful in applying to rural areas, creating a rural digital innovation ecosystem, which acts as s heuristic rural tourist model that fosters new types of tourism, i.e.smart rural tourism.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: podeželski turizem, podeželski digitalni inovacijski ekosistem, pametne in trajnostne turistične destinacije, trajnostni razvoj, digitalne tehnologije, spodbujanje trženja, hevristični model podeželskega turizma
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FE - Fakulteta za elektrotehniko
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2024
• Št. strani: 30 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 8, iss. 6, article ID 4065
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-158642
• UDK: 004:338.48(1-22)
• ISSN pri članku: 2572-7923
• DOI: 10.24294/jipd.v8i6.4065
• COBISS.SI-ID: 199101955
• Datum objave v RUL: 18.06.2024

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of infrastructure, policy and development
• Skrajšan naslov: J. infrastruct. policy dev.
• Založnik: EnPress Publisher
• ISSN: 2572-7923
• COBISS.SI-ID: 174862339

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: rural tourism, rural digital innovation ecosystem, smart and sustainable tourist destinations, sustainable development, digital technologies, marketing promotion, heuristic rural tourism model

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P2-0425
• Naslov: Decentralizirane rešitve za digitalizacijo industrije ter pametnih mest in skupnosti