Sustainability-oriented Innovation in Smart Tourism

Chapter 1 Sustainability-oriented innovation in smart destinations: An integrative perspective.- Chapter 2 Blending technology-driven and social-driven innovation in smart tourism destinations.- Chapter 3 Smart and sustainable destination management: An analytical framework.- Chapter 4 Smart technologies for sustainable tourism development: Exploring practices in European destinations.- Chapter 5 Framing sustainability-oriented innovation in smart tourism destinations: Conceptual advancements and research agenda.

Cecilia Pasquinelli, PhD (e-mail: cecilia.pasquinelli@uniparthenope.it), is an Associate Professor of Economics and Business Management at the Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy. She obtained her PhD in Management, Competitiveness and Development at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy). She previously worked as a researcher in the GSSI Cities, Gran Sasso Science Institute in L'Aquila, Italy and in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden, where she joined the Centre for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Place Management and Development (Emerald). She is a senior fellow at the Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and an affiliate professor at the Institute of Management, Scuola Sant'Anna (Italy). She developed several action research projects on tourism development, local sustainable development and innovation policies in collaboration with local, regional and national authorities. Her research interests include place branding, sustainable tourism and urban overtourism, sustainable destination management, smart tourism, place of origin, local and regional development. Her work was published in various international peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Urban Studies, Cities, Environment Planning Studies, Regional Studies, Marketing Theory, and Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management. She co-edited the book Tourism in the City. Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism, Springer. She developed experience as a consultant in place marketing and foreign direct investment promotion, working at OCO Global Ltd. in Paris (France). 

Mariapina Trunfio, PhD (e-mail: trunfio@uniparthenope.it), is Associate Professor of Economics and Business Management and Director of the Master in Tourism & Hospitality