Platform for open and integrated promotion of Tourism Services

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.

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 This information has been posted on EUREKA Tourism Web site on Friday, January 18, 2010