Beyond Bricks and Mortar: How CEO digital vision in smart cities impacts tourism resilience and digital heritage preservation

Meng-Chen Zhang, Hongru Zhang, Ying Wei, Wen Wang, School of Liberal Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, School of Economics and Management, Taizhou University, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

Published online on November 19, 2025

Abstract

Convergence, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the causal impact of CEO digital vision within smart cities on tourism enterprises’ resilience and digital heritage preservation. Employing a Difference-in-Differences quasi-experimental design, we find that firms led by digitally ...