LoTour: Using Technology to Provide Competitive Advantage in Local Tourism Industries

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Author(s): Marcos Ruano-Mayoral (Egeo IT, Spain), Ricardo Colomo-Palacios (Østfold University College, Norway), Pedro Soto-Acosta (University of Murcia, Spain)and Ángel García-Crespo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 10
Source title: Social Development and High Technology Industries: Strategies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ahmet Cakir (Institute of Ergonomics, Germany)and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-192-4.ch002

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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The Internet has brought a radical change in the way tourism services are conceived. In this new scenario, not only has attracting tourists been modified over the Internet, but the provision of tourism services have been altered. Thus, the different factors of tourist services are in a new environment and they should operate in a coordinated manner to increase the value of tourism, to keep current tourists and attract new ones. With this aim, LoTour, the architecture presented in this chapter provides a platform for the integration of different services, provides comprehensive information on the tourist destination from the context (location, time of day, season, weather, etc) and the profile of the tourist.

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