ABSTRACT
As discussed in earlier chapters, the future of tourism remains uncertain in the short-run. The COVID-19 has accelerated a long-dormant crisis in the tourism industry. The fact is experts and policy makers call the attention on the adoption of new opportunities, tactics, and strategies. Digital technologies and ICT (Information communication tech) offer fertile grounds to optimize destinations and consumptions in a paralyzed world. The most important element of the developmental debates in the last decade among social scientists, policy-makers, civil sphere activists has been the growing world-wide inequalities especially in the context of the evolving networked society or the “informationalization of economy” (Hall, 1996). With the rise of the information society, these inequalities are becoming more and more visible. Despite of the widespread disagreement about the concept, the social-economic-political changes generated by the new information technologies are pervasive. Globalization only with the appearance of the information society become completed. Dealing with the emergence of the new social organization and integration forms, it is necessary to consider the impact of information technology generated development in a holistic manner without losing the rich context in which the changes are being taken place.
