What is smart tourism and its development prospect?

Smart tourism is a systematic and intensive management reform based on the new generation of information technology (also known as information and communication technology, ICT), in order to meet the individual needs of tourists, provide high-quality and highly satisfactory services, and realize the effective utilization of tourism resources and social resources. In terms of connotation, the essence of smart tourism refers to the application of intelligent technology including information and communication technology in tourism. It is a modern project aimed at improving tourism service, enhancing tourism experience, innovating tourism management and optimizing the utilization of tourism resources, enhancing the competitiveness of tourism enterprises, improving the management level of tourism industry and expanding the scale of the industry. Smart tourism is a part of smart earth and smart city.

"Smart tourism" is an important way for future tourism to accelerate "internet plus" and develop "future tourism". Smart tourism conforms to the requirements of the development of the times, is the development trend of the future industry, and is an important opportunity to promote the development of modern service industry.