Fostering sustainable tourism through digital innovation and green tourism initiatives in Bangladesh

IF 4.9 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Sustainable Futures Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI:10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100841

Sakib Bin Amin , Mahatab Kabir Khandaker , Bismi Iqbal Samia , Farhan Khan , Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

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Abstract

Tourism, a vital global industry, has faced significant setbacks due to health crises like COVID-19 and monkeypox, reshaping global travel perceptions around the world, including in Bangladesh. As a vital industry interconnected with the country's economy, it is crucial to understand the pandemic's impact on Bangladesh's tourism industry and identify ways to recover from its adverse effects. To that end, we employ a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling framework to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on Bangladesh's tourism industry and highlight the role of digital innovation in recovery. We simulate multiple policy experiments and find that expediting digital innovation can help the tourism industry recover from the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic without any negative macroeconomic consequences. Moreover, we develop a conceptual framework that shows the interplay of stakeholders for augmenting digitization in the tourism industry, leading to green tourism development. To achieve sustainable tourism through digitization, we propose policies to ensure effective industry planning, diffusion, and decision-making among the stakeholders in the tourism industry.

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在孟加拉国通过数字创新和绿色旅游倡议促进可持续旅游业

由于COVID-19和猴痘等卫生危机，旅游业这一重要的全球产业面临重大挫折，重塑了包括孟加拉国在内的世界各地的全球旅游观念。作为与该国经济相互关联的重要产业，了解疫情对孟加拉国旅游业的影响并确定从其不利影响中恢复的方法至关重要。为此，我们采用可计算一般均衡（CGE）建模框架来分析2019冠状病毒病对孟加拉国旅游业的影响，并强调数字创新在恢复中的作用。我们模拟了多项政策实验，发现加快数字创新可以帮助旅游业从COVID-19大流行的不利影响中恢复过来，而不会产生任何负面的宏观经济后果。此外，我们还开发了一个概念框架，展示了利益相关者在增强旅游业数字化方面的相互作用，从而实现绿色旅游发展。为了通过数字化实现旅游业的可持续发展，我们提出了政策建议，以确保旅游业利益相关者之间有效的产业规划、传播和决策。

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Sustainable Futures Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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9.30

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1.80%

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审稿时长

71 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Futures: is a journal focused on the intersection of sustainability, environment and technology from various disciplines in social sciences, and their larger implications for corporation, government, education institutions, regions and society both at present and in the future. It provides an advanced platform for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development in society, economics, environment, and culture. The scope of the journal is broad and encourages interdisciplinary research, as well as welcoming theoretical and practical research from all methodological approaches.