Tourism and City. Reflections about Tourist Dimension of Smart City

  • Rosa Anna La Rocca Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) – University of Naples Federico II
Keywords: Smart city, digital tourism, smart tourist destination

Abstract

The city of the future seems to be necessarily “intelligent” both in its physical and in functional features.This paper starts from the consideration that the diffusion of new communication technologies (ICTs) is significantly changing the urban supply system of tourist services giving rise to new ways of enjoying the city.As tourism can be assumed as an urban activity, by a town planning point of view, the study of tourism is meaningful to identify development trajectories of the present cities targeted to sustainable and smarter models.As a matter of fact, almost all the projects to get a “smart city” are based on the idea of joining the potentialities of ICTs and the needs of urban management through people living or using the city.In such a vision, “tourist dimension” of the city becomes fundamental in promoting urban image as well as in improving efficiency of the city. This efficiency also depends on the capability of each city to share historical and cultural heritage as “common good”.As tourist demand has deeply changed also driven by technological development, this paper tries to investigate how the urban supply will change in order to meet the rising demand of quality and efficiency. The transition to smart tourist destination currently seems to be strongly connected with the number and the variety of apps to improve the “experiential component”. A lack of interest there seems to be in finding strategies and policies oriented to plan the urban supply of services tourist or not.This consideration, if shared, opens up new perspectives for research and experimentation in which city planning could have a key-role also in proposing an holistic approach to city development towards smart city.

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Author Biography

Rosa Anna La Rocca, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) – University of Naples Federico II

Architect, PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, researcher at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) - University of Naples Federico II. Her research activities refer to the analysis of phenomena that can change urban organization and it is focused on the study of three main relationships: tourism and town planning; land use and mobility, innovation technologies and urban transformations. These topics are the object of her 50 publications.

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Published
2013-06-10
How to Cite
La RoccaR. A. (2013). Tourism and City. Reflections about Tourist Dimension of Smart City. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 6(2), 201-214. https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/1483