What is it about?
the war in Ukraine has awakened painful memories of the wars in the former yugoslavia. These wars, considered as inter-ethnic genocides and the desire to destroy the civilizational vocation of cities, had the effect of a long siege of 4 years for Sarajevo between 1992 and 1995 and the NATO bombings in 1999. what role plays and can play new technologies in tourism in this process of urban, memorial and civilizational reconstruction
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Why is it important?
new technologies in general, but also in tourism, play an increasingly prominent role in towns and cities. We see in our research that the smart city is becoming an increasingly widespread standard to improve the living comfort of locals. tourism is part of our lives and contributes to trade and the prosperity of a city and a country. In the Balkans, technologies in tourism are still in their infancy, between the desire to enter the EU and institutional and nationalist confrontations.
Perspectives
This article is a basis for a broader and more extensive work on the correlation between urbicide - transition - resilience through the prism of tourism and new technologies. multidisciplinarity borrowed from several scientific fields, can in a more or less near future, contribute to a greater international understanding, of structural issues on the future of countries in the grip of a still seething past, and avoid new conflicts and collapses
Cyril Martin-Colonna
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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This page is a summary of: What smart tourism in post-conflict cities follows a urbicide process? The role of new technologies in urban tourism in the western Balkans, Journal of Smart Cities and Society, July 2023, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/scs-230004.
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