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Smart Cities' Role in Travel & Tourism

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  • 72 Pages
  • November 2025
  • Region: Global
  • GlobalData
  • ID: 6190051
This report analyzes the key theme of smart cities’ role in the travel and tourism sector. Smart cities are spreading across the globe. This report provides an insight into key trends, challenges, and recommendations, as well as providing concrete case studies to help the reader see examples of cloud computing technologies in action.

Increased urbanization and the challenges created by a changing climate are causing growing infrastructure headaches for cities, which will only worsen. These challenges are driving the growing development of smart cities. This market will be worth $417.0 billion in 2028, according to the analyst forecasts, up from $204.8 billion in 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.3%. The plethora of Chinese tech-led, surveillance-driven cities has been joined by a new breed of renewable energy-focused cities, notably in the Middle East. Digital twins, particularly, are behind the successful operation of many cities, including London, New York, and Paris.

Reasons to Buy

  • Understand the impact of smart cities on the tourism industry, using case studies to help you understand how you can adapt and understand this theme. Assess the strategies that companies are adopting to succeed in smart cities.

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Players
  • Technology Briefing
  • Trends
  • Technology trends
  • Macroeconomic trends
  • Regulatory trends
  • Travel & tourism trends
  • Industry Analysis
  • Market size and growth forecasts
  • Impacts
  • Challenges
  • Recommendations
  • Case Studies
  • Timeline
  • Value Chain
  • Platform layer
  • App layer
  • Services layer
  • Companies
  • Public companies
  • Private companies
  • Smarter Cities
  • Sector Scorecards
  • Industrial automation sector scorecard
  • IT services sector scorecard
  • Glossary
  • Further Reading
  • Thematic Research Methodology
  • About the Analyst
  • Contact the Publisher

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  • Alibaba
  • GE Vernova
  • Hitachi
  • Honeywell
  • Huawei
  • IBM
  • Schneider Electric
  • Siemens
  • Smart buildings: ABB
  • Arcadis (IBI)
  • Carrier
  • Cisco
  • Johnson Controls
  • Didi
  • Hitachi
  • Huawei
  • IBM
  • Kapsch TrafficCom
  • Lyft
  • Siemens
  • Thales
  • Uber