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This paper focused on understanding the growing demand for consumer-oriented health information technologies (CHITs) wearable and adult healthcare management apps. This study utilised the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and integrated the concept of perceived risk. The structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique was applied to test the research hypotheses based on the 450 quantitative responses. This study confirms significant relationships between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived risk, attitude, behavioural intention, and actual intention in using CHITs. The findings also showed no evidence to conclude that age and education influenced respondents perceived usefulness and perceived ease of the CHITs. This study incorporated the perceived risk to fill a gap in the literature and broaden the current TAM theoretical application in the public health setting. The study findings fill the health-related technology acceptance literature gap and broaden TAM's present application in the public health setting.

With governments of different countries having a vision of smart cities, the technology adoption and implementation are at its peak and the current increase in the usage of advanced technology for a smart city has led to an increase in the carbon imprint across the globe, which needs immediate attention for the environment sustainability. Although the Internet of things (IoT)-enabled devices have changed our world by bringing an ease to our lifestyle, it has to be kept under consideration that they also have adverse effects on the environment. Over the past few years, enabling energy conservation via Internet of Things in the growth of smart cities has received a great deal of attention from researchers and industry experts and has paved the way for an emerging field called the green IoT. There are different dimensions of IoT, in which an effective energy consumption is needed to encourage a sustainable environment. This conceptual paper focuses on the key concept of green IoT and sustainability, knowledge of Smart cities’ readiness to Green IoT (G-IoT)-enabled sustainable practices, and identifying the Green IoT sustainability practices for smart cities.

In the information technology community, communication is a vital issue. And image transfer creates a major role in the communication of data through various insecure channels. Security concerns may forestall the direct sharing of information and how these different gatherings cooperatively direct data mining without penetrating information security presents a challenge. Cryptography includes changing over a message text into an unintelligible figure and steganography inserts message into a spread media and shroud its reality. Both these plans are successfully actualized in images. To facilitate a safer transfer of image, many cryptosystems have been proposed for the image encryption scheme. This chapter proposes an innovative image encryption method that is quicker than the current researches. The secret key is encrypted using an asymmetric cryptographic algorithm and it is embedded in the ciphered image using the LSB technique. Statistical analysis of the proposed approach shows that the researcher's approach is faster and has optimal accuracy.

The idea of Smart Cities has been one of the key driving factors for the urban transformation to a low carbon climate, sustainable economy and mobility in recent years because of the alarming situation of global warming. One of the industries with swift growth is hotel sector and hence is one of the key contributors to carbon emission and leaves environment footprints. The new emerging concept of sustainable tourism is envisaged as an important part of the Smart Cities paradigm. Improving sustainability by saving energy is becoming a primary task toady for many hotels. A great opportunity is provided by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) to assimilate different systems on a platform by encouraging and assisting hotel guests to operate through single device and optimizing hotel operations. Current research focuses to identify the strategic positions of a hotel in terms of sustainability, AI and IoT technology. Components that will be considered by Hotels for the strategic intention of adopting AI and IoT for environmental sustainability. Different development and modification needed to be taken if management wants high sustainability readiness and/or IoT readiness. This conceptual paper constructs on the comprehensive study and systematic review of different area where the hotels can feasibly implement AI and IoT for improving sustainably.

The current research focuses on the financial literacy among the women, youth and impact of fin-tech on the socioeconomic well-being of the economy. The researcher has incorporated extensive data mining on financial well-being and assesses the financial literacy along with attitude and behavior for financial knowledge mainly focusing on youth and usage of AI in financial services. It has been observed during research that the benefits of the technology are limited only to the urban areas, but the rural places are not much benefited and therefore more focus is needed for the financial technology to get amalgamated with rural lifestyle for convenience and transparency of financial transactions. This research paper contributes to the awareness of financial literacy and importance of financial reliance for the youth of today through knowledge sharing. The research also highlights the importance of government involvement in financial literacy and creating awareness at a global level for well-being of youth and women. Financial literacy can also improve the rate of entrepreneur’s growth and financial decisions. Financial knowledge and fin-tech services can help in better financial decisions and saving culture for self-reliant youth.

All the major industries are shifting from the linear economy to circular economy that aims at how the generated water can add value to the industry by modifying the production and consumption of the resources. The hospitality industry is also touched by this change. Hospitality and tourism industry have experienced an extraordinary growth in the recent decade, which has catalyzed the requirement of the hotels, which in turn has made people think about the serious issue of water generation in the hotels. Kitchen, storage and lodging area of hotels are considered to generate a large amount of waste, and hence makes it one of the primary sources of waste origination. So, this research focuses on the major difficulties and opportunities that hotels encounter by adopting this transformation. This research article sketches the prominence of sustainable practices in the hotel industry and provides insights to the circular economy practices embedded in the business planning and operations of the selected hotel chains. This research is exploratory in nature and embraces multiple business case analysis for specific selected hotel chains and focuses only on physical parameters. The focus of the study is on physical parameters, and thus through the various hotel cases, the best sustainable practices have been analyzed and presented. This research can work as guidelines for the hotel chains to equate the circular economy practices implemented by other chains. This research can also provide policy makers to focus on exploring new practices of circular economy to support the environment.