Big Data Analytics for the Prediction of Tourist Preferences Worldwide : Emerald Publishing Limited : 9781835493397 : 22 Feb 2024 : Big Data analytics and machine learning are being adopted in a range of industries ? but how can these technologies be utilised and what can they offer to the tourism industry? In the process of their journeys and in their decision-making processes, people who travel contribute to the generation of a huge flow of data; all this information is a potential base for creating smart destinations and improving tourism organizations' potential to customize their products and service offerings. The real execution of such inventive forms of data-driven value generation in tourism continues to be more restricted to the theory or used in a few exceptional cases. Big data and machine learning techniques in tourism persists as an unclear concept and a subject of investigation that necessitates closer analysis from an extensive range of field and research methods. Big