Overview:
The whole world is rapidly transforming and shaping towards physical to virtual formation which is the results of evolutions and inventions of advance information & communication technology. We also refer it ICT or IT in our common parley globally. Meeting is the most purposive and interactive exercise normally contacted at particular meeting points, meeting venues, i.e., office, chamber, meeting hall, convention centre, parliaments, assembly house, and stadium that depend on the size of gatherings.
Meetings previously had done face to face. Virtual meetings are not new phenomena where people connect through digital technology in virtual or online mode with internet facility avail by host and guest.
Virtual events can offer a number of ways for participants to connect and communicate. Webcasts include live presentations or pre-recorded videos where the presenters are available for questions and answers at the end of the session – a technique called Simulive Virtual booths, forums, and designated meeting places allow participants to connect with event staff or fellow attendees using online chat, video, and voice. Participants can leverage their social network within the event to form interest groups or find like-minded individuals. They can also share the findings with their online communities, often leading to viral popularity of an event (Wikipedia).
In brief the book will focus on the following objectives:
1. To cover the new trends and innovations in event management with evolvement of new edge technological applications in various industry globally and locally.
2. To project there al changes business, education, and society, sports, travel, and tourism hospitality industry through cases studies of various regions of the world after new normalcy.
3. To focus the application of smart technology solutions and digital practices for efficient business, education, society, sports, and travel tourism industry practices.
4. To emphasis the coverage on the gather ease of doing work, experiences, economy, and environmental impact, due to application this online technology.
5. To explore about new business models, new entrants, innovative practices in the tourism and hospitality, and events sector.
6. To provide realistic information as future roadmap for stakeholders for sustainable tourism practices after new normal for business, education, society, sports, travel, tourism hospitality industry globally
Impact:
This book will be a reference book, which will cover sub-thematic articles related to Online & Virtual Events: New Horizon for Business, Academics, Society, and Sports. The main purpose of this book toe target to new age of consumers who have technology enabled know how, gadgets, software, and tech savvy environment at demand and supply of good and services, tech know how, tech skill, and curious to adopt and implement tech applications in this context there are New Millennial, Generation Z, Generation Y to Baby Boomers. In this context, these as Online & Virtual Events: New Horizon for Business, Academics, and Society & Sports. All these people need sound technological understanding and applications, as students, researchers, academicians, event and IT industry professionals, tourism, hotels, hospitality professionals, event policy makers, event and culture departments of various government and non-government officials. Overall, the outcomes of this book will more beneficial for all stakeholder of education, business, sports, tourism and hospitality sector to better connect and access digital borderless world to meet out personal and professional, educational, promotional routine business affairs globally and, virtualization of physical contacts into online meeting practices is need of hours due to paucity of time, greater economy, and excel more energy in the efficiency of individual and organizations with innovative solutions through cutting edge technological transformation to connect local and global citizen for their respective purposes.
Value:
This book will create more value addition because there are very meagre literature available on Online Virtual Events for Tourism and Hospitality Sector. The book chapters in forms of empirical, qualitative and quantitative research papers, case study, add-on contemporary knowledge base for scholars and academicians and industry professionals for better understanding tourism and hospitality industry prospects and familiarise with unique concepts, cutting edge research, trends, practices and successful cases of global tourism operations and marketing
Although, online events have a not the new development. These also have been transforming with advancements of technology and limited to business corporate and IT sectors. But after COVID 19 pandemics these online event is only supporting system to connect people to people, business to business, business to consumers, continue their routine and most essential affairs business, education, social, health, and convenient to use, adopt, apply.
Aim of the Book:
The aim of this edited book will disseminate the dynamic role information technology and user-friendly, smart, seamless, personalized, and more convenient at local to global contexts. This book will focus on the issues related to virtual and online events for routine commercially, educationally, homely, socially, cost effective, energy effective, affordable, manageable, accessible and sustainable system for business, education, society, sports and travel tourism sector globally.
Who Intends to Use It:
This book also enlighten to students, research scholars, academician and industry practitioners, trade professional to acquaint new knowledge and cutting-edge information related with readiness and preparation to survive, sustain and smooth business, education, society, sports and travel tourism industry practices specially in the era of new hybridization of global meetings.