Challenges , Function Changing of Government and Enterprises in Chinese Smart Tourism

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has leaded to irreversible trend to change the industry structure and business strategy in travel and tourism in the past decades. In China, smart tourism has been one of the most important issues of travel and tourism industry. In this paper, we firstly introduce the structure and technologies of smart tourism system, and then discuss government and enterprise which are the two main objects participated in the system and their function changing in different stages of developing smart tourism, the challenges which may occur or have occurred in the implementation of current smart tourism are finally discussed.