Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Developing a Framework for Future Research

Tarik Dogru, Nathan Line, Makarand Mody, Lydia Hanks, Je’Anna Abbott, Fulya Acikgoz, Albert Assaf, Selim Bakir, Adiyukh Berbekova, Anil Bilgihan, Alec Dalton, Ezgi Erkmen, Mahala Geronasso, Dale Gomez, Sue Graves, Ali Iskender, Stanislav Ivanov, Murat Kizildag, Minwoo Lee, Woojin LeeJohn Luckett, Sean McGinley, Fevzi Okumus, Irem Onder, Ozgur Ozdemir, Hyekyung Park, Abhinav Sharma, Courtney Suess, Muzaffer Uysal, Tingting Zhang

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Abstract

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) offers important opportunities for the hospitality and tourism (HT) industry in the context of operations, design, marketing, destination management, human resources, revenue management, accounting and finance, strategic management, and beyond. However, the implementation of GAI in HT contexts comes with ethical, legal, social, and economic considerations that require careful reflection by HT firms. The purpose of this study is to offer a critical examination of the effects of GAI applications across a broad spectrum of stakeholders in the HT industry, in an effort to integrate practical and academic insights and foresights and drive academic research forward. Through the contributions of a purposeful selection of scholars, educators, and industry-practitioners, along the tenets of the stakeholder theory of the firm, this study highlights the potential challenges and opportunities of GAI and considers how academics can navigate the (research) complexities of this rapidly evolving technological phenomenon.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalJournal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2023

Keywords

  • ChatGPT
  • generative artificial intelligence (GAI)
  • hospitality and tourism
  • stakeholder theory
  • value co-creation and co-destruction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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