An analysis of Iranian Smart Tourism Papers

Smart tourism is a new applied term that describes the increasing dependence of tourism destinations, industries and different forms of tourists on new forms of information and communication technology that transform massive amounts of data into valuable propositions. Despite the growing importance of smart tourism, as one of the most basic sources of income for societies, not so many studies (especially inside the country) have been conducted in this regard. Therefore, the purpose of this research was document analysis of authentic domestic articles about smart tourism in an analytical way. The current research is descriptive-analytical and its method is analysis. The statistical population of this research includes all scientific-research articles that have been published in scientific-research publications approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in the country, and due to the small number of them (12 cases), the full enumeration method was used. The results of the analysis show that from 2016 to now (2021) there are only 12 scientific research articles in the country, which indicates the lack of attention to research on smart tourism in Iran. Also, the results show that in terms of geographical distribution, Isfahan city is in the first place and the field of management, especially Market management, has played the most important role in the field of smart tourism in Iran. Also the superiority of the combined method over positivism or positivism is quite evident. Another finding of the research is that the method of collecting most the printed articles was documentary and combined (questionnaire and interview). Also the data analysis in most of the articles has been using the typical T-Tech test, structural equation model and composite model, and regarding the widely used software in the field of domestic smart tourism articles, we can mention SPSS software along with Smart PLS.