An Evaluation of New Values in Economy and Their Impacts on Future Transformation in Tourism

Abstract

In this period, when "industrial society" has emerged as an "information society" by experiencing transformation with the effect of a revolution like Industry 4.0, the innovations of digital values in the new economy play an important role. It is inevitable that digital communication networks, bitcoin and blockchain technologies that will change the ways of communication between producer and consumer, will have effects in the transformation of tourism industries as in many industries. The shaping of the elements of change in the economy with the effect of digitalization makes the studies on the relation between economy and technology important in tourism sector as in many other sectors. In this context, a literature study was carried out on the use of blockchain technologies in tourism industries in order to demonstrate the economic policies that can be developed in the direction of transformation in tourism, the place of new technological-economic values in the tourism economy and their use in the field of economics. In this context, a literature study has been carried out on the economic policies that can be developed for the transformation of tourism, the place of new technological-economic values in the tourism economy and the usage of blockchain technologies in tourism industries. This study aims to examine the new values in the economy and the possible effects on the transformation in tourism at the conceptual level and to develop a perspective on the changes in the sector. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.