The vast majority of people use the Internet to search for various products and services including those touristic. Now more than ever it becomes critical for touristic businesses to have a strong online presence. In order to achieve this goal it is however essential that multiple communication channels and technologies are properly used. In particular having semantic annotations on the website...

André Jansson New media technologies create new preconditions for touristic practises and experiences. Throughout the process of a journey, from the dreams and plans of a trip to the re‐experiencing of old travel memories, technologies for information gathering, storing, dissemination, and representation are involved. Mediatization alters perceptions of place, distance, sociality, authentic...

While the touristic service offers become present and bookable in abundance on the ICT communication channels, TourPack aims to build a linked data -empowered system for touristic service packaging. Integrating information from multiple sources and systems employing linked data as a global information integration platform, and mining from the depths of the “closed” data, the touristic service p...

This paper deals with the status of solid waste pollution in touristic spots of North coastal Andhra Pradesh. Case studies of Eco tourism, cultural tourism and pilgrim tourism are elaborately discussed and the study is based on both primary and secondary data. Data collection includes field collection of solid waste, semi structured interviews and observation of tourists. Results indicate gener...

Rural tourism from Western Carpathian Mountain was characterized in the last years by a low occupancy rate and a decline in tourist arrivals, due, beside of the direct effects of economic crises, to the remote location of mountain villages and to the low quality of infrastructure. For this reason we consider that the implementation of complex and integrated products based on tour thematic circu...

Nowadays, when a user is planning a touristic route is very difficult to find out which are the best places to visit. The user has to choose considering his/her preferences due to the great quantity of information it is possible to find in the web and taking into account it is necessary to do a selection, within small time because there is a limited time to do a trip. In Itiner@ project, we aim...

Silver Surfers show constant growth rates in the usage of the internet and touristic internet services. This paper investigates specific user behaviour of senior people while being tested in a Usability Lab. The methodology of "Thinking Aloud" and "Retrospective Review" are compared with each other in terms of acceptance, utility and specific outcomes. In order to optimize web based booking pla...

Tourism outcomes are often regarded as driven by the tourist. The in ̄uence of tourism on society is often anticipated to be negative. This conceptual paper extends the power vocabulary of Michel Foucault to challenge the exclusivity of this view. Power is conceptualized as omnipresent in a tripartite system of tourists, locals, and brokers. The Foucauldian framework reveals that the touristÐlik...

The development of the Web in the direction of user-generated content, information sharing, online collaboration and social media, have drastically increased the number of communication channels that can be used to interact with potential customers. In this demonstration we present the latest developments of our multi-channel communication solution, which enables touristic service providers, e....