The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the Ebre Bioterritori Territorial Specialisation and Competitiveness Project (PECT), coordinated by el Baix Ebre County Council and 50% financed by the European Regional Development Fund, with the goal of promoting innovative and sustainable business models in les Terres de l’Ebre. Specifically, Eurecat is heading the Living [...]
The Internet’s evolution towards the metaverse unlocks new challenges and opportunities for tourism businesses and destinations to put in place strategies for crafting services and products which enhance the quality of the tourism experience along with new content which impacts users and communities in virtual spaces that add to the reciprocity between the physical [...]
Today, Forum TurisTIC highlighted the sector’s ability to generate value by making the most of digitalisation and stressed that the acceleration of transformation that this entails, from the perspective of tourists, companies and destinations, becomes key for moving forward towards the new post-pandemic tourism, on a horizon where it is anticipated that the digital economy [...]
A total of 14 small and medium-sized tourism companies in the province of Tarragona will be chosen to improve their business skills and to incorporate innovative digital solutions that allow them to transition to more resilient, sustainable, and circular operating models, within the framework of the European project RESETTING, coordinated by the technology center Eurecat. [...]
The Tourism Technology Platform – Thinktur has unveiled at FITURTECHY the e-book “Cybersecurity in the Tourism Industry” brought out by the Tourism Technology Centres Group which includes Eurecat. Tourism firms are heavily reliant on digital technologies to perform critical business operations such as payment processing, accounting and booking services. This means “they need to [...]
The Eurecat technology centre, Tarragona Provincial Council and its Tourist Board today unveiled the Tourism Data System 2+ family tourism indicators platform developed as part of the TDS2+ operation in the PECT TurisTIC in Family Project. It furnishes tourist destinations on the Costa Daurada and in Terres de l’Ebre and their stakeholders with an integrated and [...]
This Wednesday, the Centre of Excellence in Tourism Innovation (CoE in Tourism Innovation) held the inaugural meeting of its Academic Council made up of key university institutions in Catalonia specialising in tourism training and research across a range of fields. At the meeting, the Academic Council was briefed on the projects currently being run by the [...]
L The first session of the tourism workshop ‘How to undertake visitor flow management initiatives to enhance the tourist experience’ unpacked the guidelines for sustainable tourism flow management and leisure-related mobility systems at tourist destinations for the Costa Daurada’s tourism practitioners, managers and businesses. The issues discussed in the session led by Xavier Cazorla, an [...]
Resuming tourism business operations in the new scenarios which have unfolded since 2020 calls for taking a close look at tourist mobility. This was the topic at Tuesday’s ‘Optimal visitor management’, conference organised by the Tourism Innovation and Intelligence Laboratory in Eurecat’s Tourism Innovation Department and Tarragona Provincial Council’s Tourist Board on the Costa Daurada and in [...]
CoE in Tourism Innovation businesses and organisations are jointly spearheading innovative projects for more resilient and sustainable tourism. They include a pilot study scrutinising data from booking engines to learn about the profile of visitors to Catalan tourist attractions and a project which will identify and put forward the best tools for optimal talent management in [...]
