Technological transformation, culinary tourism and stakeholder engagement: emerging trends from a systematic literature review

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to pinpoint the technological transformation impact on food as the cultural phenomenon for destination brand identity and management as the novel approach for the stakeholder causal scope (SCS) analysis in culinary tourism. Thus, this paper attempts to answer the following research question: What is the role of technological transformation in addressing stakeholder engagement of culinary tourism? Design/methodology/approach The research is based on the systematic two-decade literature review of technological transformation for SCS analysis in culinary tourism. This paper adopted a longitudinal study of ABS2018 list – 2-, 3-, 4- and 4*-star journal articles, collecting literature within the field “sector” and Scopus databases as relevant source to collect articles. Findings Following the current severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 emergency to move certain industries to digital space, including culinary tourism, the main findings are directed to advance technological transformation knowledge in culinary tourism to extend the existing framework on SCS. Originality/value The novelty of this research is confirmed with the contemporary call for technological transformation in culinary tourism assuming that SCS analysis allows examining the status quo and explores future research agenda and practical implications in post-Covid era.

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“…In recent years, digital transformation radically changed the way public and private organisations operate (Lombardi et al, 2020;Nambisan, 2017;Rippa and Secundo, 2018;Schimperna et al, 2020;Lombardi et al, 2021a), fostering them to adopt new technologies (e. g. social media, mobile, business analytics, Internet of Things, Big data, Advanced Manufacturing/Industry 4.0/5.0, digital-to-physical-transfer, cloud and cyber-solutions, artificial intelligence) to gain significant benefits (Fischer and Reuber, 2011;Greenstein et al, 2013;Fitzgerald et al, 2014;Lardo et al, 2017;Nambisan et al, 2017). Among new technologies, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook or YouTube have become increasingly important because of the creation, sharing and exchange of information with countless counterparts (Leonardi and Vaast, 2017).…”