Tourism, Safety and Covid-19: Security, Digitization and Tourist Behaviour

This book offers empirical insights on challenges faced by the travel and tourism industries in the post-COVID-19 era. It explores the role of innovation and digital solutions. It considers how the commitment of smart tourist cities to technology, sustainability, and accessibility can benefit tourists and local inhabitants.

Salvatore Monaco is Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (Italy), where he teaches ’Gender, Identities and Spaces’. He obtained his PhD degree in Social Sciences and Statistics from the Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II (Italy). He is researcher at Osservatorio LGBT and OUT (Osservatorio Universitario sul Turismo), University of Naples Federico II. His research interests concern social exclusion, tourism, urban contexts, technologies and new media, with particular attention to issues related to identities, genders, sexual orientations and generations.