Standards Development

Scope

This document defines a semantic base that allows representing relevant information related to tourist destinations (resources and services within the destination, travel experiences, and the destination itself), ensuring the interoperability of local, territorial and country tourism IT platforms with third-party digital systems.

This document provides tourist destinations with semantic data structures that primarily benefit final users (i.e. tourists), as these structures allow destinations to provide access to relevant information in an intuitive and agile way and improve the interaction between tourists and the systems that manage, publish, carry transactions and accompany them. Furthermore, destination managers and data publishers, who will be in charge of applying this document, will also benefit from such implementation, thus being of interest to the whole tourism industry.

Ultimately, this document establishes the vocabulary, the hierarchy, and the minimum properties and relationships required for the definition of a reference semantic structure at international scale in favour of the interoperability of systems and the improvement of the accuracy of recommendations to tourists.