Impact of Industry 4.0 on Sustainable Tourism: Perspectives, Challenges and Future

The tourism and hospitality industry is a major contributor to global carbon emissions, and there is a need to explore emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, extended reality, and service robots to combat this crisis. This chapter examines the opportunities for academia and industry in agile and disruptive technologies to create sustainable solutions. It highlights the potential of these advancements, such as Extended Reality (XR), Machine Intelligence (MI), and Computer Vision (CV), to shape the future of sustainable tourism research and practice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2023
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

The tourism and hospitality industry stands as a primary contributor to the climate crisis, accounting for substantial global carbon emissions. It is imperative to disseminate opportunities and investigate scientific avenues in emerging technologies associated with Industry 4.0, including artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, extended reality, and the utilization of service robots. Moreover, forecasting future trends in the tourism industry's efforts to combat the climate crisis is crucial.

In this chapter, the authors explore the potential of agile and disruptive technologies to address these pressing challenges. By integrating unique features such as Extended Reality (XR), Machine Intelligence (MI), and Computer Vision (CV), they assess the impact of Industry 4.0 on sustainable tourism development. This study holds significance for both academics and practitioners, as it sheds light on patterns and projections that contribute to a discourse on the progression of disruptive and futuristic technologies in the field of sustainable tourism research and practice.

Weight: 402g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804551585