This week’s topics
Contemporary Technologies and Future Growth
- Artificial intelligence applications
- Internet of Things (IoT) in smart hotels
- Automation and service robotics
- Virtual and augmented reality travel experiences
- Oct 2017 - The Internet of Things (IoT): What does it mean for businesses today?
- Week 6: Lecture 28: Automation Vs Autonomous & Role of Robotics, Humanoid, GenAI
- Week 2: Lecture 9: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Computer Vision
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Evaluate the impacts of contemporary technological developments on the future growth of the tourism and hospitality industry.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate the impacts of contemporary technological developments on the future growth of the tourism and hospitality industry.
Study materials
Videos
- Oct 2017 - The Internet of Things (IoT): What does it mean for businesses today? · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 22 min · for registered students
- Oct 2017 - Are you ready for the fourth industrial revolution and should you be? · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 44 min · for registered students
- Smart Hospitality: The Human-AI Partnership · YouTube · eCornell · 59 min · for registered students
Further resources
- European Capital of Smart Tourism (EU initiative and best-practice compendia) · Reading · Eu, case study · for registered students
- Foundations of Information Systems, 10.1–10.2: Emerging technologies · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 373–384 · for registered students
- Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 12: Future trends · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 287–297 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
