EUREKA TOURISM is a European strategic initiative launched within the EUREKA programme and led by Spain, oriented to the sustainable improvement of tourism, leisure and cultural sectors. The objective is the definition of the main lines of technological development and the generation of R&D projects that as a result would set up products, processes or innovative services with technological basis and a commercial interest.

Oriented to public and private entities, EUREKA TOURISM is a real European network for technological innovations in the tourist sector.

2009-07-06

Project looking for Partners: AXS

AXS: A SOA Plafform for the Universal Data interchange

This project aims at the construction of a SOA Platform for the Universal Telematic Data Interchange, modularized, adapted to your business, valid for any Information Provider and done with low development, implementation, exploitation and maintenance costs for your IT systems.

Objectives:
· To create a generic and integral SOA platform valid for all telematic data interchange system.
· To reduce development and implementation costs in the current Information Data Interchange Services.
· High variety of Business targets, thanks to the Business Adapters.
· High ability in defined Business vocabularies through W3C XML Schema.
· High scalability and benefits through a distributed XML Server.



2009-07-01

Good news! EUREKATourism until 2012...











During the EUREKA XXIV Ministerial Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 19 June 2009, the continuation of the Umbrella EUREKATourism has been approved and endorsed for 3 years.

The EUREKATourism Consulting Committee is now officially represented by 17 entities in 10 countries:

  • Spain: SEGITTUR, Fundación Tecnotur, Fundación IBIT, CICtourGUNE, ITH and CINNTA
  • Portugal: Alentejo Network of Village Tourism and INESC INOV
  • Israel: Correlation Systems and Geosim
  • Austria: EC3
  • UK: TEAM Tourism
  • Belgium: DeciZium
  • France: Dev-Help
  • Malta: Paragon Europe
  • Cyrpus: E&E Travel Providers
  • Ireland: Tourism Research Centre

United Nations World Tourism Organization: Permanent Member

Because of the strong involvement of the UNWTO in the initiative and because of its knowledge in the sector providing expertise and added value to the Umbrella, the EUREKATourism chair takes pleasure on creating a permanent chair for all sessions of the EUREKATourism Consulting Committee.