DIH Tourism 4.0 proudly announces to be part of the EU-funded DATES Tourism Data Space project. The aim of this project is to explore approaches and options for deploying a secure and trusted tourism data space, ensuring transparent control of data access, use and re-use. The project focuses on developing governance and business models while providing a shared roadmap that will ensure the coordination of the tourism ecosystem stakeholders and the connection between data ecosystems at EU level and interconnected data spaces in other sectors.
The project promotes the vision of a prosperous tourism data space and recommends clear strategies on how to inspire and motivate all key tourism stakeholders to collaboratively build a powerful interconnected tourism data space. Besides providing leadership and practical advice about how every stakeholder in the tourism value chain can contribute and utilise data streams, the added benefits of a European Tourism Data Space will be highlighted from each stakeholder’s perspective. In more general terms, DATES supports the digital transformation of the sector, fostering competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability as key success factors to maintain Europe’s leading role.
The DATES work will be structured around the following activities:
Identify high-priority data sets and define rules for their usage.
Develop a blueprint of the technological and non-technological elements that will define a tourism data space.
Create an integrated and comprehensive tourism data ecosystem managed by a common governance.
Incorporate resilience and sustainability as transversal pillars of the tourism data space.
Partners
ANYSOLUTION SL, Spain
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (TECN), Spain
IDC ITALIA SRL, Italy
MINISTERO DEL TURISMO, Italy
INTELLERA CONSULTING SRL, Italy
AMADEUS SAS, France
INTERNATIONAL DATA SPACES EV, Germany
ARCTUR RACUNALNISKI INZENIRING DOO, Slovenia
NETWORK OF EUROPEAN REGIONS FOR COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM ASBL, Belgium
UNVEILING USE CASES FOR THE EUROPEAN TOURISM DATA SPACE In the quest to define the minimum viable Data Space for the European Tourism Data Space (ETDS), DATES and DSFT have embarked on a journey of use case development. These use cases play a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of the data space, offering scenarios […]
DATES PROJECT AND DATA SPACES FOR TOURISM PRESENTS ITS OUTCOMES IN CZECH REPUBLIC Coalition validation online workshop of the DATES project with Czech stakeholders and partners took place on the 26th of October 2023 On October 26th, just a few days before the end of the DATES project, CzechTourism Agency as an associated partner of […]
HIGH-LEVEL EVENT IN BRUSSELS TO SET THE BASIS OF THE EUROPEAN TOURISM DATA SPACE TOGETHER WITH KEY ACTORS, MEMBER STATES AND EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTATIVES Brussels, 25-26 September 2023 On September 25th and 26th in Brussels, high-level events focused on establishing the European Tourism Data Space. The initiatives, DATES Tourism Data Space and Data Space for […]
Conference Data Spaces Discovery Day On 19.10. the international conference Data Spaces Discovery Day took place in Vienna. What were our impressions of the event? The biggest benefit is the huge shift in the data space that is occurring. Compared to the conferences held a year ago, we have moved from general policy statements and […]
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Project meeting in Brussels On 25 September 2023, the two teams responsible for preparing the roadmap to a European Tourism Data Space met in Brussels and jointly presented the interim results of their work. The DATES and DATES Tourism Data Space teams have come a long way since last November, mapping available data sources, tourism […]
Newsletter #4 The main objective of DATES is to explore approaches and options for the deployment of a secure and trusted tourism data space, ensuring transparent control of data access, use and re-use The project is in its final stretch and so far numerous studies and activities have been carried out, all of them related to tourism […]
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“The European tourism data space: positioning the European tourism industry” meeting On June 8th, the DATES partners’ meeting, took place in Palma, Spain. The event, which was hosted by AnySolution in collaboration with Hosteltur, brought together representatives of all 13 partners – among those also Tourism 4.0 Lead, Dr Urška Starc Peceny – to analyse […]
The Transversality of the Tourism Industry: Towards a Digital Transformation The tourism industry is a complex network that spans various domains and industries, establishing synergies with cultural heritage, transportation, media, and smart communities. This blog post aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the transversality of the tourism industry, as explored by the DATES (Digital […]
Trends and Data-driven Transformation of the Tourism Industry: qualitative and quantitative insights The tourism industry underwent significant transformations due to the Internet and mobile technologies several decades ago. However, recent developments such as the need for increased competitiveness, affordability of digital technologies, and macro-economic factors like COVID-19 have accelerated a new wave of changes. Within […]
Newsletter #3 EVENTS DATES have actively participated and organised several events to disseminate the project’s activities and to continue increasing and consolidating the community hat we believe perfectly capture the essence of the DATES project mission Data Space Symposium Data Space Symposium, organised in The Hague on the 21-23 March 2023. It was a great […]
Newsletter #2 The main objective of DATES is to explore approaches and options for the deployment of a secure and trusted tourism data space, ensuring transparent control of data access, use and re-use The project, launched in November 2022, has carried out an intense mapping of data sharing initiatives with the support of the project […]
NEWSLETTER #1 The DATES Project Kicked Off The main objective of DATES is to explore approaches and options for the deployment of a secure and trusted tourism data space, ensuring transparent control of data access, use and re-use. During one year, the 13 European partners will come together to set the basis of the European Data Space for […]