Zoran Ćirić, Associate Professor, PhD
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Economics Subotica, Segedinski put 9-11, Subotica, Serbia
Stojan Ivanišević, Phd Student
JKP Informatika Novi Sad, Bulevar cara Lazara 3, Novi Sad, Serbia
blockchain friendly cities and tourist destinations. Various cities and countries developed technology-
based solutions to serve the common good that is effective and efficient. The two cities or rather
called city-stated that are perceived as most blockchain friendly destinations are Malta (La Valetta)
and Singapore. These two destinations widely adopted blockchain technologies and become a hub for
blockchain enterprises and researchers. Accordingly, blockchain tourism has emerged over the past
two years as a subset of tourism development. Malta adopted a highly positive and simulative environment
for the blockchain based companies and attracted a significant number of business entities
working with blockchain followed by capital investments, business people, researchers, and experts.
The objective of this paper is to identify best practices related to Malta blockchain strategy and its relationship
to the sustainable tourism development in order to identify key dimensions for the sustainable
growth of this sort of the tourism while highlighting key resources and challenges.
Keywords: Blockchain, tourism, Blockchain legislation, cryptocurrency, sustainable development.
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