Paper Details

Name: Subham Varshney , Tushar Jangra & Avinash Adhupiya
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume No: 13, Issue No: 1, Year: 2026
Page Number: 319-329
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20625360

ABSTRACT
Purpose: This study utilizes IoT, AI, blockchain and data analytics to help sustain destination development and resource management. This research studies the use of digital technologies in developing energy, water, and waste systems, governance, and responsible tourism practices.
Methodology: The qualitative research methodology for this study has been the use of continuous review and analysis of secondary literature. The data and implications of smart technologies in tourism ecosystems was collected from multiple sources including but not limited to peer-reviewed journals, articles, books, industry reports and relevant policy papers.
Findings: In the results of this study, intelligent technologies significantly increase sustainable tourism in three key areas: operational and environmental efficiency, in real-time monitoring and prediction of resource management; better tourist participation and behaviour changes, personalized mobile and immersive virtual devices; improved transparency and equitable governance, using decentralized systems such as blockchain.
Originality: This study investigates whether converging smart technologies are tied to sustainability of the destination through the application of converging smart technologies. This method re-examines the blurry paradigms of technologies, bridged to socio-economic and governance systems by providing a way in which technologies are recreated across the inextricably divided paradigms of technology.
Keywords: Smart Tourism, Sustainable Destination Development, Resource Management, Digital Innovation, Smart Technologies, Responsible Tourism, Tourism Sustainability