Key Innovations in Technological Progress and Creative Destruction in the Tourism Industry
Daniel Meyer (Chile) I. SummaryThe history of tourism from the 19th century to 2025 can be understood as a succession of innovations that transformed mobility, accommodation, management, and the traveler’s experience. Railways, steamships, automobiles, aviation, and IT systems have redefined entire stages of development. The internet, smartphones, and collaborative platforms…
The Effect of Artificial Intelligence on the Sustainability of Tourism: Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Perspectives
In recent years, tourism has undergone an unprecedented transformation driven by technology, particularly digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). These advances can be considered significant benefits, as they have created new opportunities and services. However, they have also introduced substantial gaps within the industry, both for travelers and tourism sector…
Tourism Trends for 2024/2025
In the coming years, tourism as a contemporary social phenomenon will continue to evolve and adapt to the new and changing needs of travelers worldwide. Here are the main trends I believe will define 2024: Sustainability: Environmental awareness and social responsibility will continue to grow, and the tourism industry will…
Covid-19 and the future of tourism
The tourism, the economy, and many activities of our society have experienced periods of development and stagnation throughout history, which we could characterize as true cycles in their evolution. When conducting a historical analysis of the evolution of tourism, specific aspects and factors can be identified that explain the stagnation…
Management for Sustainable Tourism Development: The Pending Task
In our previous column, we shared the idea expressed by numerous academics and other observers of the international reality, that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would allow us, as few times in the recent history of world tourism, to face the crisis as an opportunity. The progressive recovery of…
Between globalization and globalism
The world, since the pandemic restricted mobility from the beginning of 2020, has led to the frequent exposure of the terms globalization and globalism, often misunderstood, but impacting all productive sectors of humanity. Tourism was no exception, especially when it is limited to territories that, under the guise of autonomy,…
Tourism and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
Since the beginning of 2022, the tourism sector in Peru has embarked on a titanic task of recovering from the losses incurred during the pandemic. According to the National Superintendence of Migrations, in just the first two months of this year, 133,875 international tourists arrived in Peru. After two years…