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Landscape of Tourism IT Systems and Providers

Landscape of Tourism IT Systems and Providers

In our NADIT project, we are primarily concerned with data and digitalisation in tourism. Having succeeded in identifying and providing the most important data sources for tourism, we started to reflect on the data infrastructure and aimed to find out what systems are...

Unveiling Insights by Visualizing Tourism Data

Unveiling Insights by Visualizing Tourism Data

In todays world, where a vast amount of data is generated each day the ability to extract valuable insights from this data is crucial for any business. Data visualization is the process of representing data in graphical form. It empowers tourism professionals to make...

What is schema.org and why it matters for tourism?

What is schema.org and why it matters for tourism?

Data standards play a pivotal role in ensuring interoperability, seamless communication across diverse platforms and machine readability.  As we navigate the vast volume of data in tourism, it becomes increasingly important to understand why data standards are not...

Tourism data landscape

Tourism data landscape

With this website and our metadata catalogue we proved that in tourism there is plenty of data available. We tried to categorize the data and divide them into categories. Moreover, our goal was to create a tourism data landscape - big picture that illustrates and...

Data categories in tourism

Data categories in tourism

Categorizing data, also known as data classification, is a fundamental practice in various fields such as data science, and knowledge management. Categorization offers several benefits and serves different purposes, depending on the context. Undoubtedly...

The Meaning of Data in Tourism

The Meaning of Data in Tourism

Data has become a driving force in almost every industry, and tourism is no exception. In today's digital age, the tourism sector generates vast amounts of data from a variety of sources, including transactions, tourism offers and the tourism environment. This article...

Tourism data inventories in selected countries

Tourism data inventories in selected countries

Nowadays, the development of the tourism industry is linked to the use of new technologies and digitalisation. Data is viewed as one of the key resources used for optimizing processes, decision-making, generating new business...

This website was created as part of Resilient Tourism Project (Suproject 1: - National Data Infrastructure for Tourism).  Resilient Tourism is one of 15 flagship projects approved and supported by the Innosuisse- Swiss Innovation Agency. Flagship projects are systemic and transdisciplinary innovations that are central to current and future economic and social challenges in Switzerland.