ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga +1 more
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Multi-objective contextual bandits in recommendation systems for smart tourism. [PDF]
Qassimi S, Rakrak S.
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how green and non‐green goods, energy transition, digitalization, economic growth, and population affect the material footprint of G‐7 countries from 1990 to 2023. Using an extended STIRPAT framework, we show that green and non‐green goods increase material footprint, demonstrating the resource intensity associated with
Sohidul Islam +5 more
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Exploring the Influence of Human-Computer Interaction Experience on Tourist Loyalty in the Context of Smart Tourism: A Case Study of Suzhou Museum. [PDF]
Xue K, Jin X, Li Y.
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ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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Enabling personalized smart tourism with location-based social networks. [PDF]
Shen Y, Wu Y, Song J, Kong X, Pau G.
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Spatial layout optimization model integrating layered attention mechanism in the development of smart tourism management. [PDF]
Ding J, Weng L, Fan L, Liu P.
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Designing of smart tourism organization (STO) for tourism management: A case study of tourism organizations of South Khorasan province, Iran. [PDF]
Ghorbani A +3 more
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Practical Methodology for Developing Visions for Carbon‐Neutral Cities and Communities
ABSTRACT Cities and communities play important roles in sustainable development and climate change mitigation. This study presents a novel framework for developing carbon‐neutral visions for cities and communities. We established five “principles,” investigated options encompassing four parameters (management, goal setting, actions, and quantification),
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