A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement in Agile Service Platform Co-Creation
Authors: Pohjola T., Grönman J., Viljanen J.
Editors: Marko Koricic et al.
Conference name: International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology
Publication year: 2021
Journal: International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics
Book title : 2021 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO)
Series title: International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology
First page : 1398
Last page: 1403
ISBN: 978-1-6654-4761-4
eISBN: 978-953-233-101-1
ISSN: 2623-8764
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/MIPRO52101.2021.9596665
In the recent decade, the concept of Smart Tourism Destination (STD) has emerged to represent both a strategic aim to develop sustainable competitive advantages for tourism destinations or wider regions, and a managerial approach and dimensions to enhance data-driven development to measure and apply smart technologies for competitive and inclusive change in a tourism ecosystem. In tourism destination development globally, the aim for sustainable digital transformation in low-productivity business sectors is one of the key drivers for smart tourism and smart destination development. More recently, the global Covid-19 pandemic has given a boost to touchless, digital and green tourism development initiatives in the EU and worldwide. To advance sustainable digital transformation with agile methods in STD development, a systemic service platform approach and agile prototyping with smart emerging technologies, (eg. with AI, IoT, Augmented & Virtual Reality, 5G and Robotics), and multi-stakeholder co-creation is needed to engage key tourism industry ecosystem representatives. This conceptual paper advocates that open-source solutions combined with comprehensive multi-stakeholder co-creation aid in prototyping a systemic digital platform solution for smart tourism destinations. The paper concludes with an illustration of a conceptual model of service platform development for smart destinations, utilizing network co-creation with quadruple-helix stakeholders for sustainable regional impacts.