People with visual impairments generally experience many barriers when visiting museum exhibitions, given the ocular centricity of these institutions. The situation is worsened by a frequent lack of physical, intellectual and sensory access to exhibits or replicas, increased by the inaccessibility to use ICT-based local or general alternative or augmentative communication resources that can allow different interactions to sighted visitors. Few studies analyze applications of assistive technologies for multisensory exhibit design and relate them with visitors’ experiences. This article aims to contribute to the field of accessibility in museums by providing an overview of the experiences and expectations of blind and visually impaired patrons when visiting those places, based on a literature review. It also surveys assistive technologies used to enhance the experiences of visitors with vision loss while visiting museum exhibitions and spaces. From this, it is highlighted that adopting hybrid technological approaches, following universal design principles and collaborating with blind and visually impaired people, can contribute to integrate access across the continuum of visits.

The roles and positive impacts of business incubators, including virtual ones, in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in multiple industries, and their consequent contributions to fostering sustainable economic growth and social development, have been highly advocated in the extant literature. Nonetheless, several authors highlight the urgent need to further carry out research concerning these structures’ operation models by involving end users, since knowledge related to this phenomenon remains scant. This study sets out to convey the third phase of a broader research and development project following a design science research methodology. Ultimately, this contributes to the field by proposing a new virtual business incubator model with immediate practical applicability. This model was cocreated and validated with 23 incubator managers and startup founders from 15 business incubation centers during focus group sessions and organized into 8 dimensions concluded as fundamental in future digital incubation programs. Moreover, this study offers knowledgeable guidelines to support academics, practitioners, organization managers, or other professionals interested in building and running virtual business incubators. The main strengths and weaknesses of the proposed model are also highlighted, and several recommendations are provided to surpass the expected challenging stages of its implementation.

Although the growing concern to make museums accessible to individuals with visual impairments, their participation in these institutions is still limited, given the multiple barriers they often experience and the lack of assistive technologies to promote access. This research investigates the perspectives of 72 blind and partially sighted individuals on enhancing their visiting experience in museums. A co-created framework to improve visitors’ autonomy is proposed, concluding that sensory, intellectual and physical access must be integrated into the pre, on-site and post phases of visiting museums.

Smart tourism destinations have emerged in the last decade as a recent evolution of destination. These denote innovative tourist spaces based on hyper-connected technological infrastructures that promote sustainable development, efficient resource management, improved tourist experiences and meaningful interactions with residents, contributing to enhancing destinations’ competitiveness in the tourist sector. However, its widespread understanding and operationalization benefiting from qualitative research practices remains poorly explored. This article provides a comprehensive systematic literature review combined with thematic analysis to examine 43 studies on smart tourism destination advancements through qualitative approaches in detail and identify critical research trends that require urgent attention. The results provide multiple theoretical and practical implications related to employing qualitative methods to advance this emerging field; the most representative geographic scope covered and others demanding attention; the fundamental themes addressed for the economic, sociocultural, environmental, managerial, political, and tourism informatics dimensions of smart tourism destinations; and several future research avenues to extend and shape the future of this area of knowledge.

Virtual business incubators have been highlighted for their positive impacts in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in several business areas, contributing to sustainable economic growth and social development. However, despite their crucial roles, previous literature emphasizes that research concerning their business models has been largely ignored, and several important issues are still unaddressed. This article aims to contribute to filling this gap and advancing this field by providing the first bibliometric and systematic literature review, as far as the authors know, concerning virtual business incubator models. The main results reveal the following: that academic production is relatively new, fragmented, and develops under a diversity of research paths; the analyzed models (n = 12) have only some dimensions in common and are proposed based on three different perspectives (business organization and management, information and communication systems, and user experience); there is not a virtual business incubator model more suitable to support digital businesses or startups creation. Based on the results, it is argued that there is a need to further develop a model towards a unified virtual business incubator by actively involving different stakeholders during its design. This research can help managers, academics, and other professionals interested in running virtual business incubator programs.