  Tourism has been experiencing very relevant changes since when Information
and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in all their forms, have started to
pervade the industry and the market. In the last decade, a new concept gained
the attention of both researchers and practitioners, that of Digital Business
Ecosystem (DBE). It can be considered as a technological infrastructure aimed
at creating a digital environment to support and enhance networking between
enterprises and stakeholders operating within a sector. Aim of this paper is to
assess the extent to which the technological connection has affected the
structural configuration of the tourism system and, specifically, of tourism
destinations. The present study argues that two components can be considered
when assessing the relationships among stakeholders within a tourism
destination: a real and a virtual one. Further it shows how these two
components are structurally strongly coupled and co-evolve forming a single
system.
