Studying the Effect of IT on Sustainable Development of Tourism Destinations toward Developing Smart Tourism Destinations (Based on the Meta Synthetize Approach)

In recent years, the emergence and development of information technology has revolutionized the tourism industry. This new development necessitates the formation of new models for travel behavior, product design, research and assessment which all forms are considered as a new paradigm of tourism management. Despite of information technology potential in transformation of tourism industry, few researches have been conducted concerning its share and role in development of sustainable tourism. This research presents information and communication technology as an innovative method for developing sustainable tourism. The present research is aimed to systematically investigate the findings of literature in the field of the effect of modern information technologies on tourism through adapting the meta-synthesis method. Then, based on the identified codes, concepts, features and necessity of developing sustainable tourism have been explained and discussed. Moreover, this research tries to shed light on the importance of development and implementation of smart tourism destinations. Various scientific bases since the year 2000 were investigated in this research and also, suitable articles were identified using CASP criteria, then the extracted concepts were classified and analyzed using Nvivo10 software. This research can be a suitable tool for identification and familiarization with the concepts of smart tourism destinations.