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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the tourists' perception of smart tourism with the application of virtual reality and design a framework of smart tourism with elements of VR for Indian Tourism especially in the periods of the pandemic COVID-19. The ever-evolving and unprecedented COVID 19 situation had posed extreme challenges for the travel and tourism industry. In such conditions, it is becoming increasingly necessary to rely on digital technologies, ICT and smart tourism. ICT has served as a catalyst for innovations in tourism. Design/methodology/approach: This study investigates the impact of smart tourism and virtual reality technology on the perception of tourists towards travelling decisions during and post COVID-19 scenario. The respondents involved in the study were tourists travelling in India, the tourists come from different parts of India. A structured questionnaire has been administered to collect data from 224 travellers across India. The questionnaire consisted 22 constructs. The constructs in this section were measured using a five-point Likert scale ranging. In the first step, the first order Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is carried out, by using the software IBM AMOS-20. The initial model is generated ix constructs, and outcomes are used to analyse the model's goodness of fit and construct validity. In the second step, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is carried out to do the path analysis of the proposed model. The effect of relationships amongst the theoretical constructs is also analysed using SEM. Findings: The findings imply that the application of smart tourism along with virtual reality forms a positive perception of tourists and provides a sustainable platform for tourism organizations in Indian tourism. Virtual reality-based tourism has emerged as alternate for the tourism industry during the times of Covid, which in long run can be seen as a substitute to traditional tourism. The increasing use of blue ocean concepts, to delivery high-value experience at low cost has complimented the tourism industry. The researchers have made a modest attempt by proposing a blended model of smart tourism with virtual reality as a blue ocean strategy and which would ultimately facilitate the sustainability of the Industry by creating multi-dimensional values of experience for tourists in India. Research limitations/implications: The researchers have made a modest attempt by proposing a blended model of smart tourism with virtual reality as a blue ocean strategy, which would ultimately facilitate the industry's sustainability by creating multi-dimensional values of experience for tourists in India. Originality/value: This qualitative study designs a smart tourism system with the use of the recent advances in ICT and Virtual Reality (VR), as a bridging solution and the saviour of the tourism sector in India during COVID 19. The integration of ICT into the travel experience has resulted in the social phenomena of smart tourism. This has led to a rise in use of smart tourism tools among tourism service providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Entrepreneurial activity is considered the driving force for modern economies and societal development through economic growth, employment generation and the promotion of innovation. This paper seeks to study the growth of the available literature in the academic world and to highlight the trends regarded as 'key' in the realm of digital entrepreneurship by means of the conduct of bibliometric analysis concerning the conceptual background, the assumptions that lie under, the designs of the research along with an analysis of what was contributed to the field and the direction road map pointing out topic areas for further research. An in-depth bibliometric and systematic literature analysis is conducted in accordance with the objectives of the study. As we know the bibliometric analysis of literature can identify research clusters based on the quantity and the quality of the research conducted. Through the use of Vosviewer 1.6.10 software, the authors analyzed 122 articles from the Scopus database. The progress of research on digital entrepreneurship has been studied from 1970 to 2022. It is found that digital entrepreneurship research has gained encouragement after the year 2018. By means of cluster analysis, the authors identified three clusters which revealed a number of closely associated key words. The findings further revealed that the synthesis of topics of recent date which were of interest to scholars have led about the evolution of a large number of topical clusters along with the identification of a change in interest over the days gone past. From a study whose aim was the various economic issues, in the direction of an analysis that has deepened the factors which have led to a number of factors that have contributing for the development of digital entrepreneurial platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]