Smart tourism as a pillar for sustainable urban development: An alternate smart city strategy from mauritius

Smart Cities

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 153-162

  Dabeedooal, Yeshna Jessie ^a   Dindoyal, Vickramsingh ^a   Allam, Zaheer ^b   Jones, David S ^c  

^a Elite Business School   (Mauritius)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economy; Mauritius; Smart cities; Smart tourism; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073962095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 26246511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/smartcities2020011     Document Type: Article

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