Boyu Lin, Macao University of Tourism

Jinwei Wang, Beijing International Studies University

Hongwen Chen, Nanchang University

Xin-Jean Lim, Universiti Putra Malaysia

This special issue examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping tourism planning and development across the Asia-Pacific region. Rather than focusing narrowly on technological efficiency, the call addresses broader transformations in destination governance, spatial flows, and how communities benefit from intelligent tourism systems. The collection seeks critical, theoretically informed research that explores the social, environmental, cultural, and economic implications of AI adoption in tourism contexts.

The Asia-Pacific region offers a particularly valuable setting for this inquiry due to its diversity: advanced smart cities coexist with rural destinations and climate-vulnerable communities, creating uneven experiences of AI-driven transformation. The region simultaneously faces urgent development challenges including overtourism, environmental pressures, and inequality, while becoming a global laboratory for experimental intelligent tourism systems. This context makes the region essential for understanding both opportunities and risks of AI-mediated tourism change.

Appel publié par Tourism Planning & Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Generative AI and Tourism Planning Future
• Agentic AI and Autonomous Tourism Management Systems
• Platformization and Algorithmic Governance
• AI-mediated Trip Planning and Tourist Mobility
• AI-mediated Labor and Socioeconomic Transformation
• AI Adoption and Sustainable Tourism Development
• AI-driven Reconfiguration of Tourism Planning
• AI-driven Tourism Business Innovation in Regional Development

Timeline

• May 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Wanhao Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Younghoon Chang, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Sameer Kumar, University of Malaya

Smart systems are now deeply embedded in various social contexts, functioning as sociotechnical arrangements that sense, classify, predict and intervene in everyday practices. This special issue seeks to understand how these digitally enabled systems reshape relations between humans, machines, organisations and institutions, and how they become consequential through design, institutional embedding and everyday use.

The issue addresses both how smart systems are governed and how they themselves participate in governing sociotechnical transformation. Key concerns include questions of behaviour, interaction, coordination, authority, accountability and power, particularly examining hybrid intelligence and human-AI collaboration. The special issue invites submissions examining smart systems not merely as technical innovations but as systems shaping governance, interaction and behaviour in organisational, institutional and everyday contexts.

Appel publié par Behaviour & Information Technology. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Smart systems in homes, workplaces, healthcare, education, mobility, public services and platform-mediated environments
• Human-centred AI, hybrid intelligence and human-AI collaboration in organisational and everyday settings
• Conceptual, methodological and design-oriented approaches to studying governance in smart systems
• Algorithmic decision-making, coordination, compliance and accountability
• User adaptation, negotiation, resistance, appropriation and trust in relation to smart technologies
• AI ethics, information privacy, surveillance, transparency and asymmetrical power in digital systems
• Smart and digital health, care technologies and digitally mediated wellbeing
• Digital work, algorithmic management, robotic management and the reconfiguration of organisational routines
• Datafication, monitoring, prediction and automated feedback as modes of governance
• Inclusion, exclusion, vulnerability and inequality in smart sociotechnical environments
• Smart cities, digital government and platform-based public services
• Comparative, cross-cultural or interdisciplinary studies of smart systems and sociotechnical transformation

Timeline

• October 20, 2026: Manuscript deadline