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Overview

    Journal Description
  • The purpose of the new journal is to promote top-notch research in areas where smart technology may challenge the tourism industry, transform business, and induce behaviors that focus on business networks, travel services, as well as other areas such as design contents, products, devices, and process innovation. To address this particular purpose, the new journal will provide theoretical and empirical foundations from end-users (i.e., travelers) and organizational perspectives with technology and systems for smart cities, smart ecosystems, heritage and historic cities, and a sustainable environment. The development or application of new methodologies or a synthesis of existing bodies of knowledge will enrich not only technology-enhanced tourism but also contextual inquiries with regard to potential tourists’ behavior patterns, communication protocols, their media preference, and their decision-making process in traveling. Based on this, tourism and hospitality business and organization will synthesize new business models and applications to migrate toward smart tourism.
  • Therefore, the Journal of Smart Tourism attempts to provide underlying guidelines in smart tourism that will allow all of tourism & hospitality species to create valuable tourism business.
    Aim and Scope
  • The particular interest of the inaugural issue lies in papers that focus on (1) People: smart tourists’ behavior (2) Organization: smart business network, (3) Technology & Media: artificial intelligence, big data, robots, smart contents, product, devices, and process innovations. From a tourism perspective, the changes in travelers’ attitudes and behaviors, interactions with intelligent systems, host communities, and travel businesses in smart tourism ecosystems can have implications for tourism smartness in some of the topics that need to be addressed.
    • Smart technologies in tourism and travel
    • Cultural tourism and IT
    • Spatial tourism
    • Heritage tourism and IT
    • Tourism and hospitality product and service and IT
    • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
    • Robots and service automation
    • Leisure tourism and IT
    • Sharing economy in tourism
    • Smart tourism cities
    • Smart tourism destinations
    • Smart tourism marketing
    • Smart tourism stakeholders and competitiveness
    • Smart tourism and urban contexts
    • Smart mobility and transportation
    • Smart tourism and service design
    • Smart tourism and Covid-19
    • Concepts and theories of smart tourism
    • Case studies of smart tourism
    • Technologies for design tourism
    • IT architecture and models for design tourism
    • Design business models and the role of IT
    • Business intelligence for design tourism technologies and services
    • Electronic brokerage and marketplaces for tourists, agencies, and vendors
    • Swarms, social network services and collective decision-making
    • IT architecture and models for smart tourism such as e-tourism or smart services
    • The role of IT in smart tourism business models
    • Network analysis of a networked tourism industry
    • Developments and barriers regarding interoperability and standards
    • Acceptance, adoption, diffusion, and infusion of tourism technologies, products, or devices
    • Ensuring privacy and security in smart tourism infrastructures
    • Impact of smart technologies on traditional tourism
    • Research methods for the analysis of design tourism-related phenomena
    Publication number and dates
  • The journal is published quarterly on the following dates: March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st.

Contact

    Contact information
  • The mailing address for the journal is:
    The Editors-in-Chief are Dr. Chulmo Koo (helmetgu@khu.ac.kr) & Dr. Namho Chung(nhchung@khu.ac.kr)
    The Managing Editors are Dr. Jin-young Kim (jk293@khu.ac.kr) & Dr. Seunghun Shin(seung-hun.shin@polyu.edu.hk)
    Journal of Smart Tourism,
  • Smart Tourism Research Center, Kyung Hee University,
    26, Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu,
    Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea

Journal of Smart Tourism Guide for Authors

Guide for Authors (.pdf)

To be considered for publication in the Journal of Smart Tourism, manuscripts must meet the following standards:

  • Submission

    A manuacripts must be submitted to the onilne submision system of the Journal of Smart Tourism at :
    https://www.manuscriptlink.com/journals/smarttourism

  • General points
    • A manuscript should be original, and should not have been published previously. Do not submit material that is currently under consideration by another journal.
    • The manuscript should be in MS Word format. The format includes one-inch margins on all sides
    • The manusciport should be double-spaced, except for references, which should be single-spaced, and left justfied.
    • Preferred font: Times New Roman. Minimum print size is 11-point, except for tables and figures where 10 point may be used.
    • Two files are required for submission: 1) A cover page should include the manuscript title, all authors' name(s), position(s), affiliation(s), address(es), telephone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and any acknowledgements. 2) The manuscript file should containt the title, abstract, text, appendices, notes, references, each table, and each figure.
    • Authors' names are to appear only on the cover page. There should be nothing in the manuscript files that identifies the authors either by name or institution.
  • Title and abstract
    • Within the manuscript file, the title, abstract, and keywords should be on one page.
    • The title should be on page 1 and not exceed 15 words, and 3-7 keywords are required
    • A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. References should be avoided in the abstract. The abstract is to be 100-150 word.
  • Manuscript body
    • Manuscripts must be 8,000 words or less, including the title, abstract, keywords, tables, figures, references, and appendices.
    • Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Each heading should appear on its own seperate line.
    • The preferred format is for first level headings to be in bold.
    • American English speelings are used in all sections. English translations of all reference citations are required.
  • Figures and tables
    • Please ensure the figures and tables are placed next to the relevant text in the manuscript, rather than at the bottom or the top of the file. Ensure that each illustration has a caption. The corresponding caption should be placed directly below the figure or table. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
    • Submit tables as editable text and not as images. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.
    • All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, webpages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be supplied at the highest resolution/quality possible with numbers and text clearly legible. Keep text in the figures themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
  • Acknowledgements
    • Include acknowledgements on the cover page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. Please avoid including any acknoledgments or personal information that might identify you in the body of the paper.
  • Reference
    • All in-text citations are to be included in the reference list and all references should have in-text citations.
    • Unpublished results and personal communication are not recommended in the reference.
    • The Journal of Smart Tourism follows the American Psychological Association (APA) style.
    • The format for in-text citation is as follows:
      • Single reference:

        ... Smith (2005) suggests that ... or it is argued that ... (David, 2006).

      • Multiple references:

        ...(Cohen, 2006; Harrison, 1999). Please note that authors in this situation appear in alphabetical order. Also note the use of punctuation and spacing.

      • Page number:

        Page numbers should be given when using specific points from a paper, including direct quotations or referring to a given part of it: ...(Dann, 2004, p.44).

      • Multi-author sources (more than three authors):

        When cited first in the paper, these should name all co-authors: ...(Smith, Brown, Johnson & Clark, 2005)..thereafter, the last name of the first author, followed with et al. (Smith et al., 2005).

    • References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc., placed after the year of publication.
    • For the reference list, see the following examples:
      • Journal article:

        Coles, T., Hall, C. M., & Duval, D. (2005). Mobilizing tourism: A post disciplinary critique. Tourism Recreation Research, 30(1), 31-41.

      • Book:

        Nash, D. (2007). The study of tourism: Anthropological and sociological beginnings. Oxford: Elsevier.

      • Edited book:

        Smith, M. K. & Robinson, M. (Eds.). (2006). Culturual tourism in a changing world: Politics, participation and (re)presentation. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.

      • Doctoral Dissertation:

        Sheldon, P. (1984). Economics of tour packaging, Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaii, United States.

      • Conference proceedings published in a journal:

        Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116(47), 23499-23504.
        https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910510116

      • Conference presentation:

        Guthrie, J., & Gale, P. (1991, March 10-14). Positioning ski areas – A case study: Central Otago, New Zealand. Paper presented at the New Horizons in Tourism Conference, Calgary, Canada.

      • Webpage on a news website:

        Toner, K. (2020, September 24). When Covid-19 hit, he turned his newspaper route into a lifeline for senior citizens. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/coronavirusnewspaper-deliveryman-grocries-senior-citizens-cnheroes-trnd/index.html

      • Webpage on a website with a retrieval date:

        Urry, J. (2001). Globalising the tourist gaze. Retrieved November 15, 2008, from http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/urry-globalising-the-tourist-gaze.pdf U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). U.S. and world population clock. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retreived January 9, 2020, from https://www.census.gov/popclock