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Towards the future: ESG and trends in active spa tourism – 15.3. 2024! We invite you to the 12th edition of the Tourism Forum, which will focus on ESG issues. The aim of this year’s meeting is to familiarize the professional public with the topic of ESG, its importance and also its application in practice. […]

We would like to invite you to the 12th edition of the Tourism Forum, which will be hosted by CzechTourism Agency in cooperation with ČUCR. The event will take place on Friday, 15 March 2024, and will be part of the HOLIDAY WORLD & REGION WORLD trade fair at the PVA EXPO Prague Letňany. Our […]

Conference: Current trends in tourism: sustainability, digitalization, increased business resilience and destinations The micro-conference on Current Trends in Tourism, which took place on 2.11.2023 as a side event of the GO Regiontour fair in the Brno Exhibition Centre, focused on the topics of sustainability, digitalization in tourism, greater resilience of businesses and destinations and their […]

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 […]

NEWSLETTER #5 On 25 and 26 September, two major high-level events took place in Brussels to lay the foundations for a European Tourism Data Space. Both consortia of the European Tourism Data Space EU projects – DATES Tourism Data Space and Data Space for Tourism – organised together a technical High-Level event involving key actors […]

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 […]

Impact of natural disasters on tourism The consequences of natural disasters often leave massive damages that can negatively affect all sectors of the economy, including tourism. Despite the efforts of national and local authorities, tourism stakeholders can in many cases lose most of an entire ‘season’ or even a longer period as they try to […]

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 […]

New EU regulatory enviroment for data spaces In 2020, the European Union Commission unveiled the “European Strategy for Data“, aiming to establish a unified data market to bolster Europe’s global competitiveness and data sovereignty. This strategy comprised several proposed regulations, further detailed in the box on page 3: Proposal for AI Act (AIA-E) Proposal for […]