Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues (Jun 2022)

Digital platforms and entrepreneurship in tourism sector

  • Alfonso Marino,
  • Paolo Pariso,
  • Michele Picariello

DOI
https://doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2022.9.4(15)
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 282 – 303

Abstract

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The current level and abilities of digital platforms are developing new practices of connections, communication, comprising the tourism sector in its different declinations. In its different declinations, the common model is the digitalization of tourism. The article proposals, analyses of the digital platform models related to the tourism sector. The digital platforms can characterize the new sector' phase. Despite this, the sector highlight deeply differences in terms of analysis and knowledge both at theoretical and operative level. The present study of a systematic literature review supported by multiple correspondence analysis highlight three different trajectories related to digital tourism platforms. The paper to provide a better understanding of platform competition research that contributes to our understanding of how platforms compete to produce and capture value in the tourist sector.