# The Impact of Blockchain Technology Adoption on Tourism Industry: A Systematic Literature Review
## 4 Conclusions  
### Evidence Obtained  
The results of the research illustrate that there is substantial interest in the adoption of BC technology in the tourism industry. This novel technology has great potential to revolutionize this sector; to help little economies to strengthen and shift towards the level of developed countries; and to support pure countries in the elimination of corruption, in the creation of a trusted system, and to stimulate equality between small and big entities.  
BC adoption positively affects the service quality offered by the tourism sector and benefits different stakeholders. The list of these benefits is very lengthy and includes, precisely: (a) the provision of a \"privacy-by-design\" solution, which ensures the data privacy that is especially important for medical tourism; (b) the better planning of tourism services by synchronizing the processes, preventing the loss of luggage, avoiding the duplication of activities related to the control, and cutting the cost and time necessary to obtain some product or services; (c) it improves the review system by collecting and protecting true data; (d) BC ensures security thanks to the real-time analysis of the data; and (e) it provides traceability, which supports agrotourism.  
Nevertheless, the adoption of BC technology, besides numerous benefits, causes some issues in terms of the process, data, and infrastructure levels [72]. Precisely, this technology is not free from hackers' attacks and, once the private key is lost or stolen, there is no way  
Figure 2: Challenges of BC implementation. Source: own elaboration.  
to recover it. Moreover, the technology is not able to differentiate true and false data, and so it cannot check the content, but its authorship and immutability are ensured [73].  
The number of studies [33; 40; 66; 71] prove that there is a lack of research regarding BC implementation in the tourism sector and low awareness among the stakeholders of this industry, which lead to the confusion that is linked to the real potentials of this technology.  
Additionally, since the tourism sector is characterized by a fragmented nature, the synchronization of the processes and the preparation of the whole ecosystem for BC adoption are crucially important.  
In sum, this research by SLR investigated the benefits and obstacles of BC adoption in the tourism sector. It is evident from the results that the majority of the academic works illustrate the benefits of the implementation of this technology and explain its potential by providing diverse models of BC-based systems. However, since BC is a young technology, numerous challenges appear on the path to its full implementation in the tourism industry.  
The solutions suggested in the previous studies basically depend on the achievement of a collaborative approach among the stakeholders in the industry, the deepening of academic research in the field, the testing of more models of BC-based systems, and most important, the establishment of relevant policies by governments. Moreover, these policies should be compatible worldwide.