Design Of A Novel Management System Of Web Multimedia Travel Plans
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
76
Pages
10
Published
2004
Size
363 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/ST040321
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
D. Kanellopoulos & A. Panagopoulos
Abstract
The use of Internet based applications as an instructional tool in e-tourism is rapidly expanding. Nowadays, there is an increase in the development of attraction and accommodation websites with huge amounts of tourist material embedded within them. However, there is not a generic, dynamic and flexible architecture regarding the management of web attractions and accommodations by tourist agents. This occurs due to the lack of any type of standardization. Moreover, there is little empirical evidence regarding the actual use of the above mentioned web contents by e-tourists. We designed a novel web management system of multimedia travel plans, in order for web multimedia travel plans to become manageable, effective and adaptive to the e-tourists’ needs. The new system is based on a best-effort archit
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