United States

enablers

motivators

tourism and hospitality

barriers

Dear Delegates, 

On behalf of the organizing committee at UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management and Elsevier, I have the greatest pleasure to welcome you to the **6th World Research Summit for Tourism and Hospitality: Resilience, Adaptability, and Innovation.** 

Though we cannot host you this year owing to Covid-19 at our beautiful resort-like campus in Orlando, Florida, we believe this virtual and live-streamed conference will provide an interactive, dynamic, and shared international platform for global academics and practitioners to discuss how to enhance research applications and knowledge management through resilience, adaptability, digital intelligence, innovation, and smart knowledge in bringing our industry and research back to normal. This summit particularly offers unique opportunities to unfold and embrace various repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic with various stakeholders, including academic researchers, industry professionals, and government officials, through dialogues on how to better utilize research outputs for the benefits of the industry, in a resilient, intelligent and innovative way. 

I hope you will agree that we have put together a wonderful program including keynote speeches, panel discussions, concurrent presentations, poster sessions, and best paper recognition and award ceremony. We hope you will take advantage of these activities and engage yourself with great learning and sharing opportunities during the two days of the Summit. Thank you for joining us and we look forward to our discussions! 

Sincerely, 
Dr. Youcheng Wang 
Dean and Preeminent Chair Professor

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The AGI conference series is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal.

Underline hosted the two main days of AGI 2020 on Wednesday June 24th and Thursday June 25th. Both days were **live-streamed** and you can read the full program bellow. All presentations are available for a **asynchronous viewing**. All presenters are grouped into panels. You can also hear guest talks by **Ben Goertzel** (SingularityNET), **Valery Tarasov** (Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics), **Tatiana Shavrina** (Sberbank) and **Joscha Bach** (MIT Media Lab). 

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The AGI conference series is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal.

Despite the fact that researchers agree that AI technologies offer a huge opportunities for firms to analyze data and identify patterns for decision making, many firms utilize these technologies for operational purposes and limit their uses for employee productivity and cost saving (Ivanov, 2019; R. Leung, 2019). The utilization of AI technologies in the systems of the firms is an ongoing process (Law et al., 2019). Compared to other leading industries in AI adoption, tourism and hospitality industry found to have low adoption rates (Bughin et al., 2017). The study of Bughin et al. (2017) indicated that among 14 industries across ten countries around the globe, tourism and hospitality industry was ranked as the lowest in terms of assets (depth of AI technologies, AI spends, and supporting digital assets), usage (product development, operations, supply chain and distribution, customer experience, financial and general management), and labor (exposure to AI in workplace and AI resources per worker. Tourism and hospitality industry is a massive industry that comprises a number of key stakeholders (government, tourism and hospitality organizations and operators, SMEs, NGOs, suppliers, employees, tourists, utilities and infrastructure, education, communities, and transport) who involve with the industry (Stainton, 2021). Hence, the aim of the current study is to investigate the perception of tourism and hospitality stakeholders on motivators, enablers and barriers of the implementation of AI technologies in the tourism and hospitality firms in the UAE. This study will adopt mixed method. It will start with qualitative approach (focus group) followed by a quantitative approach (questionnaire).

Strategic implementation of artificial intelligence in the UAE tourism and hospitality industry

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How to improve risk management in sport tourism: Applying the AcciMap approach to examine Gansu ultramarathon incident

The use of food delivery apps during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: The role of solidarity, perceived risk and regional aspects

"Intra-muros”: An assessment of the physical carrying capacity of Intramuros in the time of COVID-19

Alternative tourism development index: Review and implications

Assessing the effects of text-image congruence on hotel guests’ information perceptions and booking intention

Hospitality in the age of Covid: The impact on exhibition assemblers

In search of survival: The impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the hotel and restaurant sector

A critical review of artificial intelligence research in hospitality and tourism

Augmented reality and sustainable development of tourism: An integrative literature review

Does visitors' loyalty affect their perception of happiness? Case study of Moravian wine region

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