Integrating Heterogeneous Tourism Information in TIScover — The MIRO-Web Approach

Exploiting tourism destinations’ knowledge in an RDF-based P2P network

“…a village) developing marketing channels as tools to promote their destinations. Particularly, DMOs use DMS such as TISCover (Haller et al, 2000), VisitScotland (Homepage of VisitScotland and Scotland) and Gulliver (Homepage of Gulliver and Ireland), to distribute their properties and to present their tourism destination as a holistic entity (Buhalis and Licata, 2002). DMS is the ICT infrastructure of the DMO, used for the collection, storage, manipulation and distribution of tourism information, as well as for the transaction of reservations and other commercial activities (Werthner and Klein, 1999).…”

Ubiquitous access to cultural tourism portals

“…One major building block technology which constitutes a prerequisite for achieving quality of content, while working against the proliferation of isolated, national or even regional cultural Web applications are portals [2], [9], [28]. A cultural Web portal can be used, first of all, as a central access point to a huge amount of potentially already available information at national or regional Web sites.…”

NADIM-Travel: A Multiagent Platform for Travel Services Aggregation

“…Websites of airlines, hotels, and car rental agencies; Global Distribution Systems (GDSs), Central Reservation Systems (CRSs)) in ways that best satisfy user constraints and preferences (Haller et al 2000;Staab et al 2002). Autonomous agents, regrouped as a multiagent system, are well equipped to track these heterogeneous external sources, to gather distributed information, as well as to coordinate and monitor information retrieval processes.…”