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Purpose Building upon the theory of planned behaviour and the entrepreneurial event model, the purpose of this paper is to test the effects of the following covariates in predicting entrepreneurial intention among tourism students in Bangladesh, namely, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control (PBC), perceived desirability and perceived feasibility. Design/methodology/approach A total of 137 private university students participated in the study by means of questionnaire. The hypotheses were tested using partial least squares (PLS) analysis. Findings Findings indicate that attitude and subjective norm significantly influence perceived desirability. It was also found that subjective norm and PBC positively influence perceived feasibility. Interestingly also, both perceived desirability and perceived feasibility predict entrepreneurial intention. Originality/value The study proves the robustness of the integration of the two intent models in explaining entrepreneurial intention in a developing country. The new PLS predict algorithm has been used to generate and evaluate predictions from the path model estimations.

Tourism and technology is diligently allied since the growth is recognized in both areas over the past few decades. Technology has facilitated to reduce costs, boost up the productivity, and improve services and tourist familiarity. Technology and innovation has abetted tourism industry to substitution expensive human labor with high-tech labor globally. Moreover, digital technologies can help foster an environment for new innovation and entrepreneurship in tourism industry. The aim of this paper is to see if this technological innovation application will help to propagate and breed the tourism in Bangladesh into a new dimension. The rapid development of digital technology has been expediting global tourism industry to move forward. At present, tourism development is quit impossible and unmanageable without the application of innovations and technologies. Some popular technological innovation such as artificial intelligence, augmented or virtual reality, the IoT (Internet of Things), robotics, sensor technology, block chain, user generated contains (social media) has already reformed the approach of production, distribution and consumption. Technological innovation can create a huge benefit in promoting tourism destinations in a better strategy, especially which are connected with the management problem of tourist streams and in the sustainable tourism development. This paper was based on comprehensive literature review mainly focusing on peer-reviewed journal articles, books and conference papers. Results of the research can support making the tourism industry if Bangladesh as more advanced with the application of technological innovations.

The lack of well-designed planning and effective management of tourism development in Bangladesh may cause the destructive force, associated with negative externalities such as the loss of natural landscapes, congestion, environmental and cultural degradation. In tourism development, the effective role of local government is necessary to promote the social, economic, environmental and cultural well–being to the local communities. Many literature studies have scrutinized how the development of tourism involves collaborative relationships between the various local actors and stakeholders that participate in tourism development. Using the evidence of tourism in Kuakata, this paper contends that it is essential to understand the roles, responsibilities and benefits of all stakeholders of a specific tourist destination from sustainable tourism practice and policy and also how they retort to its adoption. The aim is to find the paramount way to develop tourism towards sustainability in Kuakata according to the main stakeholders: local government members, local community people, hotel owners and employees, and tourists, focusing mostly on the obstacles and undesirable issues. Results of this study point out the fact that there is a wide range of influences that constrain Kuakata tourism development from adopting more sustainable tourism practices. All of these aspects play a crucial role in manifestation the actions of all stakeholders concerning sustainable tourism development.