AI, Blockchain, and Metaverse in Hospitality and Tourism Industry 4.0: Case Studies and Analysis

本書對人工智慧、區塊鏈和元宇宙技術在酒店和旅遊業的整合進行了批判性的探討，以研究這些技術在徹底改變該行業方面的潛力。

Adel Ben Youssef
Professor University Côte d'Azur (GREDEG-CNRS) & Economic Research Forum Google scholar
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Adel Ben Youssef is Associate Professor at the University Côte d'Azur and has a PhD from The University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. He worked for University Paris Sud and the EDHEC Business School before joining the University of Nice. Ben Youssef has coordinated several research projects in multilingual and multicultural setting for the African Development Bank, the European Commission, several French ministries, the Economic Research Forum Cairo, and UNDP. Ben Youssef has published more than 60 academic papers in different fields such as digital economics, industrial economics, environmental and resources economics. His publications appear in World Development, Environmental and Resources Economics, Energy Economics, Technological Forecasting and Structural Change, Journal of Agriculture and Food Industrial Organization, Energy Policy, Energy and Development Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Middle East Development Journal, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Applied Business Research, European Journal of Industrial Economics and Policy, among others.

Pushan Kumar Dutta
Assistant Professor Grade III, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University,
Kolkata, India
E-Mail: pkdutta@kol.amity.edu
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Pushan Kumar Dutta is a distinguished assistant professor in Grade III at Amity University Kolkata, specializing in electronics and communication engineering. He holds a PhD from Jadavpur University and completed a postdoctorate with a scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus Association at the University of Oradea, Romania. Dutta has an extensive research background with diverse interests, including data mining, AI, edge computing, predictive analytics, earthquake precursor study, and more. As an accomplished editor, he has edited multiple books for reputable publishers such as IET, IGI Global, De Gruyter CRC Press Elsevier, and Springer. He has also authored numerous book chapters and serves as a reviewer for renowned publishers like Springer, Wiley, CRC, Apple Academic Press, Taylor & Francis. Dutta's contributions to academia include over 42 articles published in Scopus- indexed journals along with several IEEE Xplore articles and Springer Lecture Notes publications in 2023 alone. His expertise is recognized globally through keynote speeches delivered at international events like the Data Science Europe Summit. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dutta actively mentors students and coordinates sports and innovation competitions at Amity University Kolkata. He teaches classes on Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, and engineering while being involved in various technical programming committees for prestigious conferences worldwide. Furthermore, his achievements include receiving the ATAL NITI Aayog Mentor of Change recognition from National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. Under his guidance, a group won the Best Presentation Award worth $1000 during the Tech Connections session held by Johnson Controls. Dutta's passion for education is evident through his copyright entitled "Innovative Digital Teaching and Learning for Professional Readiness". He has an H-index of 13 and 768 citations to date. He continues to make significant contributions to the field of electronics and communication engineering.

Ruchi Doshi
PhD, IEEE Senior Member Founder Chair, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Liberia
Associate Professor and Research Supervisor, Department of CSE Universidad Azteca, Mexico
Email: ruchi.doshi@univ-azteca.edu; doshiruchi18@gmail.com
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Ruchi Doshi has more than 16 years of academic, research, and software development experience in Asia, Europe, and Africa. Currently she is working as Research Supervisor and Associate Professor at the Azteca University, Mexico, and Adjunct Professor at the Jyoti Vidyapeeth Women's University, Rajasthan, India. She worked at the BlueCrest University College, Liberia, Africa; BlueCrest University College, Ghana, Africa; Amity University, India; Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services, India. She is interested in the field of machine learning and cloud computing framework development. She has published research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences; three Indian patents; three books on cloud computing, machine learning, mobile cloud computing, intelligent IoT systems for big data analysis, and mobile application development. She is reviewer, advisor, ambassador, and editorial board member of various reputed international journals and conferences with IEEE, Springer, and Elsevier. She is an active member in organizing many international seminars, workshops, and conferences. She is nominated by IEEE Headquarter, USA, for the Chair of Women in Engineering (WIE) position in Liberia, West Africa.

Manohar Sajnani
Editor-in-Chief--Amity Research Journal of Tourism, Aviation and Hospitality (ARJTAH), Dean Faculty
of Hospitality & Tourism, Director, Amity Institute of Travel & Tourism, Amity University Uttar
Pradesh, Noida, Mentor, Amity Scholl of Film and Drama & Amity School of Communication, Amity
University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India
Email: msajnani@amity.edu
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Manohar Sajnani is a celebrated professional with more than 30 years of teaching and industry experience, and is a destination marketing and tourism management expert with specialization in information communication technologies in tourism and hospitality industry. His research areas are interdisciplinary, cutting across several disciplines, including people management and tourism business laws, creating value for both travel organizations and the end users. He is a consultant, scholar, distinguished academician, and a thought leader in true sense, who is known for his passion to bring practical orientation to academics in tourism and hospitality across different levels of education. He is researching, lecturing, advising, and consulting tourism and hospitality organizations, and his books and publications are referred widely by all sections of tourism and hospitality industry. He is known for engaging audience during his keynote presentations and deliberations at seminars and conferences globally. As a member of PATA (Education & Training Committee) as well as Think Tank World Tourism Forum--Lucerne, Switzerland--he has constructively contributed, and his dynamic engagement continues toward the betterment of members of all related communities and stakeholders.

Adel Ben Youssef
教授，法國藍色海岸大學 (GREDEG-CNRS) 及經濟研究論壇
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Adel Ben Youssef 是法國藍色海岸大學的副教授，擁有尼斯索非亞-安提波利斯大學的博士學位。他曾在巴黎南大學和EDHEC商學院工作，之後加入尼斯大學。Ben Youssef 協調過多個多語言和多文化的研究項目，合作機構包括非洲開發銀行、歐洲委員會、幾個法國部會、開羅經濟研究論壇及聯合國開發計劃署。Ben Youssef 在數位經濟、產業經濟、環境與資源經濟等不同領域發表了超過60篇學術論文。他的出版物出現在《世界發展》、《環境與資源經濟學》、《能源經濟學》、《技術預測與結構變遷》、《農業與食品產業組織期刊》、《能源政策》、《能源與發展經濟學》、《牛津發展研究》、《中東發展期刊》、《經濟學公報》、《應用商業研究期刊》、《歐洲產業經濟與政策期刊》等等。

Pushan Kumar Dutta
助理教授三級，阿米提工程與技術學院，阿米提大學
印度加爾各答
電子郵件：pkdutta@kol.amity.edu
Google Scholar 連結： https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VoTEUo0AAAAJ

Pushan Kumar Dutta 是阿米提大學加爾各答的三級助理教授，專攻電子與通信工程。他擁有賈達夫普爾大學的博士學位，並在羅馬尼亞奧拉德亞大學完成了獲得Erasmus Mundus協會獎學金的博士後研究。Dutta 擁有廣泛的研究背景，興趣涵蓋數據挖掘、人工智慧、邊緣計算、預測分析、地震前兆研究等。他作為編輯，為多家知名出版社如IET、IGI Global、De Gruyter CRC Press、Elsevier和Springer編輯了多本書籍。他還撰寫了多篇書籍章節，並擔任Springer、Wiley、CRC、Apple Academic Press、Taylor & Francis等知名出版社的審稿人。Dutta 在學術界的貢獻包括在Scopus索引期刊上發表超過42篇文章，以及2023年發表的幾篇IEEE Xplore文章和Springer Lecture Notes出版物。他的專業知識在國際活動中受到全球認可，曾在數據科學歐洲峰會等國際活動中發表主題演講。除了學術追求，Dutta 還積極指導學生，並協調阿米提大學加爾各答的體育和創新競賽。他教授物聯網 (IoT)、機器人技術和工程課程，同時參與全球各大會議的技術編程委員會。此外，他的成就還包括獲得印度國家轉型機構 (NITI) Aayog 的ATAL NITI Aayog 變革導師認可。在他的指導下，一組學生在約翰遜控制公司舉辦的技術連結會議中獲得了價值1000美元的最佳報告獎。Dutta 對教育的熱情體現在他的著作《創新數位教學與學習以促進職業準備》中。他的H指數為13，至今引用次數達768次。他持續對電子與通信工程領域做出重要貢獻。

Ruchi Doshi
博士，IEEE資深會員，創始主席，IEEE女性工程師 (WIE) 利比里亞
副教授及研究指導，阿茲特克大學計算機科學系，墨西哥
電子郵件：ruchi.doshi@univ-azteca.edu; doshiruchi18@gmail.com
Google Scholar 連結： https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=lYhmZdEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Ruchi Doshi 擁有超過16年的經驗。