Ontourism: Semantic Etourism Portal
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چکیده
Tourism is viewed as information intensive industry where information plays an important role for decision and action making. Austria, along with its long history on music, culture, and nature, unsurprisingly attracts lots of tourist and Austrian tourism industry contributes significantly to the local economy. Semantic technologies open up new ways of facilitating effective integration of (tourism) information originating from various sources on top of ontologies. This paper reports some work done in the OnTourism project (funded by Austria government). The overall goal of the project is to improve information creation, maintenance and delivery in the tourism industry by introducing semantic technologies to this domain.
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