AI, Blockchain & Cyber tourism joining the Smart Tourism realm

The “marriage” of tourism and technology has given birth to a new realm, this of Smart Tourism. During the last decade, a significant number of researches in the aforesaid sector have been published, revealing the growing interest in the field. With our ultimate goal being to give prominence to existing knowledge in the smart tourism sector and lay the foundations for future research in the field, we attempt to conceptualize it, by extending our previous research [1] were 12 main approaches-concepts were identified. In this research paper, we have managed to expand the borders of the smart tourism realm with three more concepts, namely Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Cyber tourism giving insight to the state of art and emphasizing what the focus of further research should be.