Knowledge Economy Studies

Identifying and Prioritizing the Fifth-generation Wireless Mobile Communication (5G) Projects in Smart Tourism

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mehdi Fasanghari 1
Mohammad Asarian 2

1 Faculty Member and Vice President for Research and Development of Scientific Communications, ICT Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.

2 Ph.D. Candidate of Strategic Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22034/kes.2024.2046023.1034
Abstract
With the development of communication and information technologies, smart tourism is developing rapidly, and the tourism industry is gradually changing. In this regard, the fifth generation Internet (5G) network, due to its higher transmission rate and less latency, can meet the needs of tourism applications using the latest 5G-based technologies such as the Internet of Things, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. It can meet the problem of low population access to the network during the trip and help to improve and develop smart tourism. To this end, in this article, we present several 5G-based projects for smart tourism that can help improve the application of this technology in terms of integrated interoperability, low cost, high speed and low latency, and increased efficiency in smart tourism. Therefore, this article, with emphasis on the fifth generation of the Internet and with the aim of identifying 5G-based smart tourism projects, seeks to prioritize these projects using the Hierarchical Analysis Method. Therefore, after reviewing the literature and interviewing experts, 5 main criteria for project prioritization were selected and weighted by AHP method using an expert questionnaire. Then, using the experts’ opinions, 17 identified smart tourism projects were prioritized according to the criteria weight. The construction of smart tourist city, smart transportation, and the use of virtual reality and augmented reality in tourism were identified as the most important smart tourism projects that managers need to pay attention to.

Keywords

Smart Hotel
Smart Tourism
Technology
The Fifth-Generation Wireless Mobile Communications (5G)

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Knowledge Economy Studies
Volume 1, Issue 1
April 2024
Pages 71-91

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