Digitization of European SMEs in Tourism and Hospitality: The Case of Greek Hoteliers

The aim of this study is to explore the need of small and medium-sized businesses in tourism and hospitality industry to adopt technology and enhance their degree of digitalization, along with the main benefits enjoyed by technology and the main challenges that hinder its adoption. Within a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective, semi-structured interviews were conducted with three hotel owners and the focus was to identify the main reasons of adoption of technology, enablers and barriers. The findings were grouped with the goal of identifying typology of business practices in using and adopting technology.

• Joanna K. Konstantinou

• Digitalization
• hospitality
• SME
• Interpretative Phenomenology.

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