Report: Austrian eTourism Day
Markus Lassnig’s forward looking statements on “m-tourism – just a hype? Market trends, challenges and capabilities”:
- The next “big thing” in e-tourism will be mobile
- Smart phones are the optimal platform (no rental of special hardware)
- Location based services obtain a mass market
- There is a huge need for geo-referenced content
- The optimisation of websites for mobile devices is not enough
- Added value through contextualised, localised and personalised applications and services
- Fee-based apps are questionable – like fee-based internet content in general
- m-Tourism is highly interactive: don’t underestimate the “uplink channel” of tourists!
After this scientific speech, Alexander Trieb from tripwolf.com gave insights into practical experiences. Salzburg Research and Tripwolf developed the iPhone app for tripwolf.