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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