Urban Dimensions and Indicators for Smart Tourist Destinations from a State of the Art

The Smart Tourism Destinations (DTI) represent innovative places established on top of an in-frastructure of advanced technology, whose objective is to promote accessible, sustainable de-velopment for tourist regions to enrich the tourist experiences and the inhabitants' quality of life. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to verify whether the indicators of existing smart tourist destinations fit within all dimensions of a smart tourist destination. For data col-lection, the bibliographic survey method was used in renowned databases. Data analysis com-prises two approaches, bibliometric and content analysis, applied sequentially. The results of the bibliometric analysis identify three main pillars in the current perspectives on DTIs: Manage-ment and Tourism Experience, Technology, and Sustainability, in addition, it revealed a duality between approaches from the Far East and Western Europe. The content analysis culminates in the proposition of two theoretical-conceptual models for the dimensions and indicators of DTIs, encompassing elements: Information and Communication Technologies (TICs), Governance, Innovation, Accessibility, Performance, Mobility and Infrastructure, as well as Segmented Sus-tainability in its economic, social, and environmental dimensions. However, the analysis high-lights the lack of consensus among studies, especially DTI indicators. The research concludes by pointing out the insufficiency of these indicators for a comprehensive assessment, notably in the environmental dimension of sustainability.