ACC Library Services: The Future of the Culinary, Hospitality and Tourism Industries: Digital Literacy

"There is a fundamental change in business processes in many areas of the economy including the tourism and hospitality industry in nowadays conditions of widespread digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this process and confirmed the vital importance of digital technologies for the development of the tourism business, which are the most important tool for obtaining a competitive advantage for tourism enterprises. These changes increase the need for the formation of various types of digital competencies for the tourism industry. The study is aimed at identifying the skills of using digital technologies of specialists in the field of tourism and hospitality."

The article examines that students need to build digital literacy skills to navigate the online world, and many do not transfer academic skills to their personal lives. Topics include considered that digital literacy lessons are easily reproducible and can help students be better prepared and informed to live on the Internet.

In this study, it was aimed to determine the digital literacy levels of university students. The study also aimed to examine the differentiation status of university students in terms of various variables of digital literacy levels.