Service robots as a tool for physical distancing in tourism

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Tarih

2021

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Yayıncı

Current Issues in Tourism

Erişim Hakkı

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

COVID-19 pandemic is affecting negatively the tourism and hospitality industry. As people must avoid physical interaction, service robots can be a useful tool to ensure a high level of physical social distance during the epidemic. This paper discusses whether the application of service robots to provide physical distance in the tourism and hospitality context is going to be beneficial or there will be side effects as well. The paper posits that service robots create a technological shield between tourists and employees that increases the physical and emotional distance between them.

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Anahtar Kelimeler

service robots, social robots, physically and socially distant service, COVID-19

Kaynak

Current Issues in Tourism

WoS Q Değeri

Q1

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N/A

Cilt

24

Sayı

12

Künye

Seyitoğlu, F., & Ivanov, S. (2020). Service robots as a tool for physical distancing in tourism. Current Issues in Tourism, 24(12), 1631–1634. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1774518