The impact of smart sustainability on tourist destination appeal

Abstract EN

The emergence of the smart cities and the smart tourism destinations in recent years has given rise to fresh expectations for the sustainability of tourism destinations.

It is shows that Information and communication technology developments have fundamentally changed the tourism industry by physically intercommunicating things.

Smart sustainability is used to express the concept of using smart technologies to achieve efficient management of tourism activities in tourism destinations which maximizes resource use and achieves environmental benefits.

The study aimed to evaluate the impact of smart sustainability on destination appeal.

Data were collected from 400 tourists through a questionnaire that was distributed in various tourism cities in Egypt.

The results showed that there is a positive relationship between smart sustainability in its three dimensions (the environmental dimension, the social dimension, and the economic dimension) and the Egyptian tourism destination's appeal.