Tourism and Digitalization (E-Gaming / E-Sports) / October 14, 2021
Conceived to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue—enabling computer science and engineering students to comprehend tourism products while providing tourism students with an in-depth perspective on the pervasive role of digitalization in contemporary hospitality—a collaborative webinar was conducted via MS Teams. The session brought both student cohorts together on a common interdisciplinary platform to examine the transformative convergence of gaming and tourism. Key thematic areas addressed during the seminar included: the definition and foundational emergence of e-sports; its sociodemographic alignment with Generation Z; the strategic intersection of e-sports and the tourism sector; the investment rationales driving hospitality corporations into the gaming ecosystem; and the gaming vision, strategic roadmap, and corporate targets of Rixos Hotels.
