Digitalisation and sustainability will be crucial to the post-pandemic upturn in the tourism industry. This was the conclusion at the TurisTIC Forum congress hosted by the Eurecat technology centre which was held today at the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site in Barcelona and also online. They will have to be accompanied by rolling out disruptive solutions harnessing technologies including artificial [...]
The challenges of post-pandemic tourism and the digital transformation of the industry will take centre stage at the 9th TurisTIC Forum congress hosted by the Eurecat technology centre and to be held on 22 June at the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site in Barcelona as well as online. The congress “will review what has happened in the last [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has contributed to the ‘Initiatives for Tourism Resilience’ e-book brought out by the Tourism Technology Centres Group and presented at the #techYdestino forum at FITURTECHY. It showcases initiatives and projects they have been working on in response to the acute crisis brought about by Covid-19 and which are designed to restart the tourism industry, a [...]
“It is essential to retain talent in the wide range of professional profiles making up human capital in the tourism industry, in businesses and in destinations to address challenges such as digitalisation, designing innovative experiences, coping with changes in demand and tourist satisfaction,” said Salvador Anton Clavé, director of Eurecat’s Department of Tourism Innovation and professor of Regional [...]
Turisme de Barcelona and Barcelona City Council in conjunction with the Eurecat technology centre as technology partner today presented at the Valkiria Hub in Poblenou a new app designed to relieve overcrowding in tourist sites by suggesting alternative ways of visiting them. Called Check Barcelona, the new app is a guide to the city and its surrounding [...]
Food group Splendid Foods, whose core business is making cured cold cuts, has partnered the Eurecat technology centre on a project which taps artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics for better cold cut curing. The Embot-ITs project “has designed and deployed a monitoring system equipped with IoT devices which gathers data from the curing procedure for processing [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the ‘PECT Mataró-Maresme: innovation ecosystem for caregiving towns and cities’ Territorial Competitiveness and Specialisation Project. It is to be led by Mataró Town Council and run in conjunction with the Maresme Healthcare Consortium, the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation, the Sant Jaume i Santa Magdalena Hospital Foundation and the Maresme Foundation [...]
The Roy Wolfe Award 2021, presented by the American Association of Geographers’ Recreation, Tourism & Sport Specialty Group, has gone to Salvador Anton Clavé, professor of Regional Geographic Analysis at Rovira i Virgili University and currently director of the Eurecat technology centre’s Vila-seca-based Tourism Innovation Department, for his outstanding academic contributions in tourism geography. Until 2019, [...]
The 9th TurisTIC Forum, the congress on the application of ICTs in tourism organised by the Eurecat technology centre, will bring together experts in Barcelona in June to address the challenges facing the industry in the post-Covid-19 scenario. Topics are to include destination management using artificial intelligence, digital nomads and emerging opportunities and also NextGeneration EU recovery funds for digital transformation [...]
The Tourism Data System MICE, a new digital platform for gathering data about meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) tourism in Catalonia, has been set up by the Catalan Tourist Board’s Catalonia Convention Bureau in partnership with local and regional convention bureaux across the region. It will make it possible to track event tourism business [...]
