Anastasia Stratigea - Böcker

This book addresses the issue of smart and sustainable development in the Mediterranean (MED) region, a distinct part of the world, full of challenges and risks but also opportunities.

The two-volume set LNCS 13956 and 13957 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2023, held at Lesvos Island, Greece, during July 3–6, 2023.The 67 full papers and 13 short papers and 6 PHD showcase papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 283 submissions. The contributions are grouped in topics which deal with General Track 1: Computational Methods, Algorithms and Scientific Applications; General Track 2: High Performance Computing and Networks; General Track 3: Geometric Modeling, Graphics and Visualization; General Track 4: Advanced and Emerging Applications; General Track 5: Information Systems and Technologies; General Track 6: Urban and Regional Planning; and PHD Showcase Papers.

The two-volume set LNCS 13956 and 13957 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2023, held at Lesvos Island, Greece, during July 3–6, 2023.The 67 full papers and 13 short papers and 6 PHD showcase papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 283 submissions. The contributions are grouped in topics which deal with General Track 1: Computational Methods, Algorithms and Scientific Applications; General Track 2: High Performance Computing and Networks; General Track 3: Geometric Modeling, Graphics and Visualization; General Track 4: Advanced and Emerging Applications; General Track 5: Information Systems and Technologies; General Track 6: Urban and Regional Planning; and PHD Showcase Papers.

Thisbook focuses on cultural tourism as it develops into the second decade of thenew millennium. It presents recent hospitality and tourism research findingsfrom various sources, including academic researchers and scholars, industryprofessionals, government and quasi-government officials, and other key industrypractitioners. It discusses the latest tourism industry trends and identifies gapsin the research from a pragmatic and applied perspective. It includes specificchapters on innovation in tourism, the virtual visitor, cross-cultural visionsof digital collections, heritage and museum management in the digital era,cultural and digital tourism policy, marketing and governance, social media,emerging technologies and e-tourism and many other topics of contemporarysignificance in global hospitality and tourism. The book is edited incollaboration with the International Association of Cultural and DigitalTourism (IACuDiT) and includes the proceedings of the Second InternationalConference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

This book explores the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer a powerful tool for the development of smart tourism. Numerous examples are presented from across the entire spectrum of cultural and heritage tourism, including art, innovations in museum interpretation and collections management, cross-cultural visions, gastronomy, film tourism, dark tourism, sports tourism, and wine tourism. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the smart destinations concept and a knowledge economy driven by innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. New modes of tourism management are described, and tourism products, services, and strategies for the stimulation of economic innovation and promotion of knowledge transfer are outlined. The potential of diverse emerging ICTs in this context is clearly explained, covering location-based services, internet of things, smart cities, mobile services, gamification, digital collections and the virtual visitor, social media, social networking, and augmented reality. The book is edited in collaboration with the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT) and includes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e-) planning and (e-)participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc.The book presents current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular environments, which are characterized by their role as globally known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and unique cultural resources, as well as the high rated vulnerability in very many sustainability respects (social, economic, biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found in the Mediterranean region at large

Thisbook focuses on cultural tourism as it develops into the second decade of thenew millennium. It presents recent hospitality and tourism research findingsfrom various sources, including academic researchers and scholars, industryprofessionals, government and quasi-government officials, and other key industrypractitioners. It discusses the latest tourism industry trends and identifies gapsin the research from a pragmatic and applied perspective. It includes specificchapters on innovation in tourism, the virtual visitor, cross-cultural visionsof digital collections, heritage and museum management in the digital era,cultural and digital tourism policy, marketing and governance, social media,emerging technologies and e-tourism and many other topics of contemporarysignificance in global hospitality and tourism. The book is edited incollaboration with the International Association of Cultural and DigitalTourism (IACuDiT) and includes the proceedings of the Second InternationalConference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

Numerous examples are presented from across the entire spectrum of cultural and heritage tourism, including art, innovations in museum interpretation and collections management, cross-cultural visions, gastronomy, film tourism, dark tourism, sports tourism, and wine tourism.

This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context.