ICT - A sustainable approach to sustainable tourism development

This research develops the proposition that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can offer an innovative approach to sustainable tourism development. ICT applications can play a critical role in managing the impacts of tourism and destination managers, amongst other key stakeholders, will find this research useful in helping to translate the theory of sustainable tourism into a workable reality for their destinations. This paper discusses and presents a conceptual version of the modified the Abernathy & Clark (1985) model in exploring and developing a new research domain of ICT and sustainable tourism development. A wide-ranging collection of ICT-based tools/applications is identified which can be used for the diverse aspects of the sustainable development of tourism.