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Author : Daisy Suk-fong FUNG
School/Work Place : School of Hotel & Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Contact : ccdaisy@hkcc-polyu.edu.hk
Year : 2017

The emergence of information technology has a profound impact on tourism industry. Today, visitors are more inclined to have searched the Internet to gain more pre-tour knowledge for the destinations than before. The advances of the various mobile technologies are providing high quality on-site assistance to visitors at destinations. Can technology in somehow substitute for the roles and functions that tour guides have previously provided? The aim of this paper is to examine how the tour guide could fit in the changing environment of the emerging technologies with their roles in the sustainable tourism.


Fung, The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with the Impact of Emerging Information Technologies PP.pdf

Fung, The Role of Tour guide for Sustainable Tourism with the Impact of Emerging Information Technologies.pdf


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
7 Think Tank XVII From Sustainability to Resilience: Understanding Diffe... file 6168 Aug 17, 2017

The tourism literature on the relationship between resilience and sustainability is still in its infancy. Some argue that resilience planning has emerged as an alternative to sustainable development to provide new perspectives on socio-ecolo...

Author: Girish Prayag & Caroline Orchiston & Mesbahuddin Chowdhury 

Year: 2017 

6 Think Tank XVII Residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism in Mauri... file 7583 Aug 17, 2017

This paper examines residents' perception on sustainable tourism in Mauritius. 500 surveys were elaborated and circulated to the respondents. This research examines the connections between the demographic variables gender, age, instruction l...

Author: Bhavish Jugurnath & Roucheet Bissessur & Youvish Ramjattan & Devendra Bissessur 

Year: 2017 

5 Think Tank XVII Innovation riving structural power changes in peripher... file 10592 Aug 17, 2017

Traditionally, tourism development in small island destinations has been explained through the lens of the Dependency Theory (Bianchi, 2002; Britton, 1982; Brown & Hall, 2000; Buhalis, 1999; Butler, 1993; Hall, 1994; Harrison, 2001; Weav...

Author: Chaya Hurnath 

Year: 2017 

4 Think Tank XVII Applying water quality as a management tool for the wi... file 14252 Aug 17, 2017

Growing human populations led to expanding agriculture and industrial activities, and during the last decade raised international concern as fresh water quality has deteriorated on a global scale. In addition, climate change threatens to cau...

Author: JJ Grobler and KF Mearns 

Year: 2017 

3 Think Tank XVII Overtourism. An analysis of contextual factors contrib... file 18548 Aug 17, 2017

Tourism is a rapidly growing industry and has far-reaching economic, social and environmental impact. The rapid growth of tourism is a challenge for many destinations. But growth in tourist numbers is not the only reason for the many problem...

Author: Fabian Weber 

Year: 2017 

2 Think Tank XVII New Forms of ‘Responsible Tourism’ in Refugee Camps an... file 42634 Aug 17, 2017

Responsible Tourism is about “making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit”. Traveling responsibly is thus about managing travel and destinations in an environmentally and culturally responsible way and de...

Author: Jaume Guia, Sil van de Velde & Lauren Chan 

Year: 2017 

1 Think Tank XVII Product innovation in route-based tourism: Interactive... file 68166 Aug 17, 2017

Route-based tourism on walking, hiking and cycling routes is experiencing resurgence throughout the world (Collins-Kreiner, 2010) and can be a driver of sustainable development, particularly for remote areas (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004;...

Author: Anna Scuttari & Isidoro De Bortoli & Harald Pechlaner & Hannes Riegler 

Year: 2017 

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