ICT - An Innovative Approach to Sustainable Tourism Development

Abstract

This research develops the proposition that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can offer an innovative approach to sustainable tourism developement. ICT applications can play a critical role in managing the impacts of tourism and destination managers, among others, will find this research useful in helping to translate the theory of sustainable tourism into a workable reality for their destinations. The paper discusses and presents a conceptual version of the modified Abernathy and Clark (1985) model in exploring and developing a new research domain of ICT and sustainable tourism developement. A wide-raning collection of ICT-based tools/applications is identified which can be used for the diverse aspects of the sustainable development of tourism