[AISWorld] [Deadline extension] IP&M Special Issue: Spatial is Special (Exploration for Spatial Approach in Smart Tourism Cities)

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Apologies for cross-posting.

Due to numerous requests, the submission date will be extended by 30th July
2022.

Please see below the call for papers.





*Call for Papers*

*Information Processing & Management (Impact Factor: 6.2)*



*Special Issue: Spatial is Special (Exploration for Spatial Approach in
Smart Tourism Cities)*



*Extended Deadline*: *July 30, 2022 (full papers due)*



*Guest Editors*

Chulmo Koo, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Jinwon Kim, University of Florida, USA

Rainer Alt, Leipzig University, Germany



Because advanced smart technologies have exponentially shaped the global
tourism sector, smart tourism (Xiang, 2021) were introduced as new concepts
with advanced strategies for managing smart tourism cities (Gretzel & Koo,
2021). Many cities are dual places as major tourist destinations.
Specifically, they includes a wide range of tourist attractions, including
historic buildings, museums, art galleries, restaurants, shopping centers,
sport stadiums, and parks. Many cities are also centers of interactive
communication among residents and visitors. They are ecosystems that
combine cooperatively with the foci of transportation (e.g., road, rail,
and air transport networks) and accommodation (e.g., hotel, and Airbnb)
infrastructure which is required for the functioning of cities for tourism
(Edwards, Griffin, & Hayllar, 2008; Gretzel, 2021). Many visitors have
their business activities in the city, or wish to visit relatives/friends
there (Wall, Dudycha, & Hutchinson, 1985). As a result, great attention has
been needed to pay to the concept of smart tourism cities in the field of
tourism and destination management (Chung, Lee, Ham, & Koo, 2021).

Tourism is a geographical phenomenon, involving tourists’ movement from one
place to one or multiple destinations via transportation networks (Lee,
Pennington-Gray, & Kim, 2019). Spatial analysis of tourists’ movement/flows
and tourism supply/demand has long been emphasized as a core component of
the geographical approach to tourism (Kang, Kim, & Nicholls, 2014) because
tourists’ movement/flows are location-based and spatial externalities of
tourism industry, along with spatial spillover effects can be derived from
the supply and demand sides of industry (Yang & Mao, 2019).

Emerging geospatial data sources and advanced analytical techniques have
provided tremendous opportunities for tourism scholars to analyze tourist
and tourism activities from a spatial perspective. Recent advances in ICT
technology and evolution of geospatial data are evident in the popularity
of various big data sources integrating geographic information (e.g.,
geotagged social media and mobile phone data). Geographic information
system (GIS)-based analytical techniques and spatial econometric methods
are also powerful for addressing complex spatial decision problems in smart
tourism cities.

Despite the importance of spatial analytics in smart tourism cities, to
date, relatively few studies have been conducted. This special issue calls
for unique insights into smart tourism cities through a spatial lens.
Therefore, this special issue invites manuscripts that focus on spatial
analytics in smart tourism cities. Specifically, this special issue focuses
on, but not limited to the following related topics:

   - Estimation of visit volumes using mobile device tracking and/or big
   data from social media
   - Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) applications in smart
   tourism cities
   - Environmental justice and environmental equity in smart tourism cities
   - Accessible tourism in smart tourism cities
   - Spatial-temporal segmentation of visitors in smart tourism cities
   - Spatial behavior of visitors in smart tourism cities
   - Applications of geospatial technologies (e.g., GIS, GPS, RS, LiDAR,
   drone, etc)
   - Spatial econometric models and methods
   - Valuing tourism/recreation resources in smart tourism cities
   - Agent-based modeling and simulation in smart tourism cities
   - Overtourism and resilience in smart tourism cities
   - Urban economics in smart tourism cities
   - Tourist mobility/flows in smart tourism cities
   - Public participation GIS (PPGIS) for planning and management in smart
   tourism cities
   - Spatial interaction modeling and spillover effects in smart tourism
   cities
   - Spatial agglomeration and competition of tourism industry in smart
   tourism cities
   - Spatial hedonic pricing modeling in smart tourism cities
   - Spatio-temporal modeling of COVID-19 in smart tourism cities
   - Spatial effects of sport/event tourism in smart tourism cities

*Submission Instructions:*



Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All
submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality,
significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue
topics of interest. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be
under consideration for another journal. Authors are instructed to follow
the Guide for Authors and submission guidelines for the journal at the
journal’s website,
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/0306-4573/guide-for-authors.
Further enquiries about the special issue can be directed to Chulmo Koo (
helmetgu at khu.ac.kr) or Jinwon Kim (jinwonkim at ufl.edu).



*IP&M time frame:*



   - Desk Check Completed: 0.5 week
   - Under Review: 1 week
   - First Decision: 7 weeks
   - Final Decision: 21 weeks



*References*

Chung, N., Lee, H., Ham, J., & Koo, C. (2021). *Smart tourism cities’
competitiveness index: A conceptual model*. In Information and
Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021 *(pp. 433-438). Springer, Cham.*

Edwards, D., Griffin, T., & Hayllar, B. (2008). Urban tourism research:
Developing an agenda. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(4), 1032-1052.

Gretzel, U. (2021), Conceptualizing the Smart Tourism Mindset: Fostering
Utopian Thinking in Smart Tourism Development, Journal of Smart Tourism,
1(1), 3-8.

Gretzel, U., & Koo, C. (2021). Smart tourism cities: A duality of place
where technology supports the convergence of touristic and residential
experiences. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 26(4), 352-364.

Kang, S., Kim, J., & Nicholls, S. (2014). National tourism policy and
spatial patterns of domestic tourism in South Korea. Journal of Travel
Research, 53(6), 791-804.

Lee, Y., Pennington-Gray, L., & Kim, J. (2019). Does location matter?
Exploring the spatial patterns of food safety in a tourism destination.
Tourism Management, 71, 18-33.

Wall, G., Dudycha, D., & Hutchinson, J. (1985). Point pattern analyses of
accommodation in Toronto. Annals of Tourism Research, 12(4), 603-618.

Yang, Y., & Mao, Z. (2019). When spatial means special: Special issue on
spatial economics and tourism development. Tourism Economics, 1-5.

Xiang, Z. (2021). Journal of Smart Tourism: A New Platform to Support and
Define an Emerging Field. Journal of Smart Tourism, 1(1), 1-2.

Best Wishes



Chulmo/Jinwon


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Chulmo Koo, Ph.D.
Professor, College of Hotel & Tourism Management
Kyung Hee University
26 Kyunghee-daero, Heogi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701,
Republic of Korea
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