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Dark Side of Digital Transformation in Tourism

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Research on technology in tourism has mostly investigated the benefits and the applications of digitalization, while the risk of structural dependency and data control has mostly neglected in smart tourism research. This study aims to investigate the digital transformation changes in tourism. This research underscores the potential dark side of five digital transformation drivers in tourism through in depth analysis of four activity system elements. The findings highlight the long-term economic, political, and social consequences of digital transformation that may lead to digital colonialism in tourist destination. The research underlines three main digital transformation gaps (productivity, technology, regulation) that may lock the tourist destinations into digital colonialism and dependency.

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This paper has been written with financial support of the National Center of Science [Narodowe Centrum Nauki] – grant number DEC-2015/19/B/HS4/02287.

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  1. Center of Post Graduate Studies, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Inovasi 1-1, Jalan Teknokrat 1/1, 63000, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

    Meghdad Abbasian Fereidouni

  2. Poznan University of Economics and Business, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875, Poznań, Poland

    Arkadiusz Kawa

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Abbasian Fereidouni, M., Kawa, A. (2019). Dark Side of Digital Transformation in Tourism. In: Nguyen, N., Gaol, F., Hong, TP., Trawiński, B. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11432. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14802-7_44

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