The 6th International Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship Conference was held on September 13-14, 2023, in Lampung, Indonesia. Our theme was "Echoing the Financial and Digital Transformation to Support Inclusive Economic Growth". The process of selecting articles uses a double-blind review to ensure the quality of the papers. Reviewers were not allowed to know the authors' identities. The reviewers come from Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and the Philippines. The contributions of the ICEBE conference to academia and society are as follows: provide knowledge and skills to participants on how to do quality research and community service; provide knowledge and skills to participants on how to publish research and community service results in reputable international journal publications; disseminate the research and community service results that the participants have carried out; review the latest research issues in economics and business, especially those related to sustainable development.

This is an open access book.The Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitas Lampung in Indonesia is hosting the International Conference of Economics, Business & Entrepreneurship (ICEBE) 2022, its fifth annual international conference. The goal of this conference is to provide a clear direction and substantial advancements in the quickly recovering global economy. The 5th ICEBE welcomes and cordially encourages all authors to submit outstanding works on a range of topics relevant to the conference's theme. Theme: “Global Economy and Business Recovery Growth to Create a Sustainable Business-Friendly Environment”

The 2nd International Conference of Multidisciplinary Studies (ICMS) was held on July 12, 2023 in Semarang, Indonesia. Our theme was “Smart Technology and Creative Economy Transformation to Support Post-Pandemic Development”. We used a double-blind review to ensure the quality of papers. Reviewers were not allowed to know the identity of the authors. Contributions of the ICMS conference to academia and society are: 1. Building a network between universities in Asia, 2. Increase interest in research in the fields of Information Technology, Economics, Tourism, Law, Engineering, and Linguistics, 3. Building networks between researchers, academics, professionals, and postgraduate students, particularly in the fields of Technology, Economics, Tourism, Law, Engineering, and Languages, 4. A means of disseminating scientific ideas and research results to be documented in scientific publications.

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 7th International Conference on Tourism Research (ICTR 2024), hosted by the Centre for Tourism Research in Africa at the Cape Town Hotel School, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa on 18-19 March 2024. The Conference Chair is Prof Rishi Balkaran and the Programme Chair is Dr Chris Hattingh, both from Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa. ICTR is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 7th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. Today, more than ever, there is a need for research and scientific guidance as the tourist sector struggles to cope with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation, socio-political turbulences, climate change and disaster risk.

TikTok has drawn attention from all over the world. Even if you have never used it before, you would still be familiar with its name. Many people have assumed that it is a US-generated platform, and normally awed at its real origin – a Chinese born and operated platform, a sister or parallel platform of Douyin. Because of the short-video platform–TikTok, and also its dispute with the US government, people have started to paying attention to what is really happening and changing in China. Two questions that hang over everyone’s mind seem to be: why China? And why TikTok? This book attempted to answer the question of why short-video platforms such as TikTok—the most popular ‘made in China’ product of all the Chinese digital platforms—became a significant competitor on the global stage. This book explores the reasons behind the rise of short video platforms in China, with a focus on the sudden and unexpected success of TikTok and its parallel platform Douyin. Beginning with the historical development of China’s online screen industry, the book goes on to investigate the ICT industry, its business models and impact on the screen industry, to unfold the reasons behind the domestic popularity of Douyin. It draws on a spectrum of sources including policy documents, industry reports and expert analysis, which is supplemented by interviews with key people in the field. It traces the changing dynamics of the Chinese online screen ecology, and shows how a mixture of technological, industrial and cultural factors contributed to the proliferation of short-video platforms in China. This engaging and topical book will be ideal reading for students and scholars of media and communication studies, platform studies, and political economy studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2023, held in Alicante, Spain, during June 6-9, 2023. The 18 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: architecting the web in the cloud continuum; machine learning for web engineering; IoT and WoT engineering; user privacy engineering; user behaviour characterization; user centered technologies; tools and techniques for advanced web engineering; and web engineering practices and experiences.