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On the high-quality development of “blockchain +” enabled smart tourism

Qingzhong Ming, Junfeng Wei

Article ID: 1731
Vol 2, Issue 2, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/st.v2i2.1731

Received: 8 May 2021; Accepted: 20 June 2021; Available online: 4 July 2021; Issue release: 30 October 2021

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Promoting the integrated application of blockchain technology and smart tourism is conducive to improving the efficiency of smart tourism public service platform and guiding the innovation of tourism public service mode; It is conducive to cultivating the new connotation of smart tourism development and activating the new driving force of tourism development; It is conducive to cultivating new forms of tourism and providing new opportunities for the development and transformation of tourism. Many regions have laid out tourism and smart tourism as demonstration application fields for the deep integration of blockchain and real economy. Its basic orientation is to build blockchain tourism platform, establish multi-party consensus mechanism, build blockchain tourism credit management system, expand application fields and enrich application scenarios. In order to accelerate the high-quality development of tourism enabled by “blockchain + smart tourism”: Firstly, accelerate the research, formulation and introduction of relevant policy implementation plans; secondly, build a smart tourism ecological engineering system supported by blockchain technology; thirdly, try to build a blockchain tourism credit management system to solve the market pain points; fourthly, focus on promoting tourism consumption blockchain points to build a global tourism chain.

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blockchain; smart tourism; internet plus tourism; high quality development

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