WIT Press


Design Of A Novel Management System Of Web Multimedia Travel Plans

Price

Free (open access)

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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