ICT Capacities in Creating Sustainable Urban Tourism and Its Effects on Resident Quality of Life

Developments in new technologies like internet provide new solutions for enriching a sustainable tourism in marketing and offering tourism services. Sustainable urban tourism with emphasis on positive relation between environment, human and community cause in increasing long term effect on resident quality of life. Some of these effects are: Increasing incomes, recreation of service facilities, improving urban decoration with cultural symbols,increasing job opportunities and so on. So in this paper we try to study and evaluate some major capacities of ICT in tourism service and its impact on resident quality of life.

Keywords:

Sustainable urban tourism , Information and communications technology , resident quality of life