eTourism Technologies

ECTRL Solutions is specialized in the design and development of solutions for the web and for mobile devices for the eTourism. We develop web portals of last generation, combining innovative components explicitely studied for the tourism domain (i.e. travel plan management, recommender systems for tourism products) with the best portal server technologies available in open source. In particular, we exploit the Liferay system  (www.liferay.com), recognized by Gartner group for its achievements on the Horizontal Portal and Social Software sectors.

Recommendation Technologies for Web Based Travel Systems

Trip@dvice is a software technology for tourism web portals that helps  visitors to plan their personal vacation and find the tourist products and services that best fit their needs. By integrating Trip@dvice, your tourism portal will provide:

  • Travel planning support: users can plan their travel by selecting the preferred tourist products and services; chosen products are  showed on a map, or can be downloaded on their personal mobile.
  • Personalized recommendation. Trip@dvice is a recommender system explicitely studied for the tourism domain, which understand the user needs and preferences and guide the users to find the tourism products which best fit their needs.

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News & Announcements

Enter 2009: Best Paper Award

The paper describing the extension of Trip@dvice with new adaptive recommendation techniques, which allow to learn the optimal navigation strategy from the user interactions has wan the best paper award at the 16th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (Enter 2009), 28-30 January, Amsterdam:

  • Learning Adaptive Recommendation Strategies for Online Travel Planning, Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci, Adriano Venturini

Country Portal for Finnish Tourism

01/12/2007

ECTRL Solutions, together with a consortium led by EC3 Networks (prime contractor), Siemens PSE, Tiscover, and Lixto, has won the public tender process for the new implementation of the Country Portal for Finnish Tourism. The same consortium already successfully realized the tourism portal for Europe (visiteurope.com).
The new Finnish Tourism Portal shall be a worldwide visiting card for Finland and make Finland even more attractive as tourism destination. ECTRL is implementing the travel planning and recommendation services of the portal.

eTourism case studies: management and marketing issues in eTourism

01/04/2008

ECTRL Solutions business case has been described in the book: eTourism case studies: management and marketing issues in eTourism" edited by Roman Egger and Dimitrios Buhalis.
"eTourism Case Studies: Management and Marketing Issues in eTourism' bridges the gap in contemporary literature o by carefully examining the marketing and management issues of companies that have successfully implemented eTourism solutions. A total of 43 case studies can be found in six sections, which explore the newest developments in this field, introducing and discussing emerging trends, approaches, models and paradigms, providing visions for the future of eTourism and supporting discussion and elaboration with the help of pedagogic aids."

Trip@dvice Portal

The tourist portal that understands your visitor:

Trip@dvice Portal is a complete solution for highly innovative tourism web portals. It combines:

  • Trip@dvice, the  innovative travel planning and recommendation technology for the tourism domain.
  • Liferay (www.liferay.com) the leading open source portal server,

to provide a complete web portal for marketing, publishing and managing your tourist destination.

This solution can fully satisfy the needs of any tourist  destinations seeking innovative ways to promote their regions.

Tourism Destinations can publish tourist products and services (accommodations, attractions, events) and target them in a personalized way to the tourists.

Tourists interacting with Trip@dvice  Portal can plan their vacation by searching for the preferred tourist items which meet their desire, by receiving personalized suggestions, and by choosing each single item composing their travel.

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Design of Software Architectures

ECTRL Solutions can help your organization in the design and development of your portal, by studying the software architecture and providing the guidelines  for adopting the best Portal Server and CMS Open Source technologies.

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