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.
EUREKATourism gives assistance and guidance to companies wishing to undertake a collaborative R&D project applied to the tourism and leisure sector.
Would you like to get funding assistance in your country?
Then, contact us at eureka.tourism@gmail.com ... and we'll help you set up your project.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=ci1DVUFUSzE4YUFxLTVZN1FSUTBRcXc6MA..
> Update June 2010 >>> Consortium is closed.
NextToMe NextToMe aims to provide business travellers an integrated tool to help them in their decisions regarding ancillary services related to the places they are at each moment. It will adapt and integrate state of art technologies into a platform dealing with mobile devices. These include: web 2.0 to incorporate the benefits of getting feedback from communities of users with similar tastes, adaptation of tourism ontologies to mobile world to produce much more helpful searches within the web, Artificial Intelligence to accurately model user’s profiles, Augmented Reality to interact with the user in an apparent and helpful way, GPS to know the position of the user.
Platform for open and integrated promotion of Tourism Services. > Update March 1st, 2010 >>> Consortium is closed. The aim of PROPS-Tour is to design, build and prototype an ICT platform for open and integrated promotion of different tourism services available in a certain geographic area, ensuring an efficient an unbiased provision of services information. There is a widening consensus about sustainable growth of European tourism industry: it should be achieved by the appearing and spreading of innovative business models based on new products and services that require significant technological developments, rather than in quantitative growth of tourist flows or the proliferation of new destinations. Furthermore tourism industry is an intensive information consumer by its own nature, and consequently a eager consumer of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) solutions.
Considering in particular e-mobility solutions, new business models are based on "Information/Recommendation Systems”, among the most promoted (even hyped) specific ICT solutions for tourist mobility. These systems offer orientation and suggestions to tourists already in their destination, taking into account tourists' profiles, their record as travellers and other factors of the surrounding context.
Unfortunately these "Information/Recommendation Systems" only too often lack enough updated on-line info about services offered in a given area. The PROPS-Tour platform wants to become an essential catalyst that allows an uneven & heterogenic tourist services offering to reach its natural targets: tourists already in their destination.
The analysis, design and prototype of this PROPS-Tour platform should also assure the promotion of tourism services offered in a certain area and that can be accessible for a variety of information/recommendation systems with the support of open standards and an interoperable environment. Therefore, the platform has the following two main characteristics:
1. It is considered OPEN according to the open interoperability standards that will be used for its construction. Withal, it will implement promotion and services supply that are meant to be open and lack any kind of slant or filter (apart from ethical criteria concerning adult leisure options).
2. It is INTEGRATED due to its capacity to agglutinate an extremely different and heterogenic offer that is to be turned into information susceptible of being treated by a wide range of systems and applications. Likewise, the platform integrates the aforementioned disparate services supply taking into account the geographical proximity.Get more information and join. http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE5JVktubkdqUUp0R2hZZlkwTXBZaWc6MA
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