R&D Projects on Culture and Tourism Applications

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11. NET_QUALITY : Networking, Multimedia and Quality Of Tourist Information: a Training Project for Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises within Europe

NET_QUALITY project proposes to promote the use of new management, organisation, and marketing techniques for SMEs in the Tourism sector (SMTEs). More generally, it proposes to promote the exchange of expertise and knowledge in the target sector.

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10. TOURnet: Integrated and Complete Support for the Tourism-Related SMEs of the Region of Crete through Interactive Media and Networks

Crete has a very large number of tourism-related SMEs which, in many cases, are family run companies (hotels, apartments, villas, rural homes, travel agencies, vehicle rental agencies, restaurant and entertainment companies, small laboratories for creating tourist related products, crafts, leather products, etc.). These SMEs, in most cases, do not have strong contacts outside Greece.

The main aim of the Cretan TOURnet Project is to set up an Internet based server (Cretan TOURnet server) that fully supports the needs of all the tourism-related SMEs of the Region of Crete.

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9. CAMPIELLO: Campiello - interacting in collaborative environments to promote and sustain the meeting between inhabitants and tourists

The project aims at supporting the dynamical exchange of information and experiences between the Community of People living in Historical Cities of Arts and Culture, their local cultural resources, and foreign visitors. The overall goal is to enable people to interact and co-operate in building a new, richer sense of community based on exchange of knowledge sedimented over the cultural resources.

The project is aimed at creating new tools, technologies and solutions to enhance the overlap and the exchange of the permanent, static, deep-rooted local culture with the foreign and temporary traces of people with different cultures within the local physical environment.

The project will define and implement an interaction medium supporting the information flow among the communities of cultural managers, visitors and local residents.

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8. VENIVA: Veniva - venetian virtual archives

Document archives are typically stored on paper. In the next 20 years, both in the public and the private sectors (such as public administration, banking, insurance and finance), it will become impossible to handle them this way because of their increasing size. One possible solution will be to put all future information into electronic archives. The aim of the VENIVA project is to set up a pilot application of a virtual archive with a hypertextual interface that should become, through the implementation of the complete set of activities, an extensive example of such an information system, one that could be an answer to the growing needs of the sectors mentioned above.

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7. MILLION: Multimedia Interactive Leading Life-giving Initiative On Net

The MILLION project aims to realise a consumer-oriented system for developing the tourist potential of European cities by providing communications-based services to a significant sample of people of some geographic areas and by giving visibility to the tourist offers of involved areas to the largest possible community of networked users: the Internet. MILLION assumes as a starting point the phenomenon of civic networking, in progress in several cities in the EU (as in Bologna and in Venice), and aims at building a system which makes possible to pass from giving civic information for free to the citizens to giving services for payment to the consumers, first of all in the tourism field.

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6. MAGIC TOUR: MULTIMEDIA AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED TOURISM APPLICATIONS AUTHORING SYSTEM

MAGIC TOUR developed a multimedia and spatially-oriented Authoring System to support the automatic low cost generation of electronic applications for tour operators, tourist bureaus and travel agencies.

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5. MINOS: A Multimedia tourist INformation On-line System

MINOS aim was to facilitate the sale of travel packages centered around holidaying in Greece.

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4. IMAGINA: Interactive Multimedia Application on the history and cultural heritage of Northern Greece

This Action aims to develop an economically viable prototype application able to stimulate the dissemination and preservation of the European cultural heritage; to propose appropriate standards (data formats) in order to harmonise similar applications in Europe and world-wide; and to generate business opportunities for hardware and software providers and the electronic publishing industry.

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3. TOURMED: TOURMED

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2. PROMOTION: Multimedia Information System for the Tourist Promotion of Crete

PROMOTION designed and implemented a prototype multimedia tourist information system able to handle in a friendly way multimedia data about Crete's sites and the tourist industry of the island.

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1. MULTIMEDIA: Hellenic Action for Multimedia Information Systems

MULTIMEDIA aimed at creating the infrastructure and mechanisms for an advanced multimedia systems industry in Greece, as well as at developing multimedia technology in the public and private sector.

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