Industry 4.0 has driven digital transformation across sectors, including tourism. Tourism 4.0 emerged from integrating technologies such as AI, robotics, the IoT, and big data into tourism, enabling digitalization and automation in areas like personalized marketing, smart destination management, and AR experiences, aiming to create a more connected, immersive, sustainable tourism experience (ADB, 2023). Many […]

At the 65th WSM in 2024, under Agenda Item 2.2, Progress on the Recommendations from the APO Vision 2025: Pause-and-reflect Activity (WSM 2024 Ref. Paper No. 1), the Secretariat provided an update on the intention to utilize the LOM in 2025 to engage NPOs in the visioning exercise. Upon the commencement of the visioning exercise […]

A CE decouples growth from resource consumption by keeping materials in use, reducing waste, and regenerating natural systems. The World Economic Forum predicts significant challenges from the current linear economic model over the next 20 years. However, digital technologies like IoT sensors, blockchains, AI/ML, high-performance computing, additive manufacturing, and big data analytics have enabled innovative […]