Basic idea about the ICT and Tourism, how ICT play role, Why Tourism site fails, How open Data will help to get solution.

1. eTourism, Web, Ope
n Data
Prakash Neupane
www.prakashneupane.com.np
Local Ambassador
Open Knowledge Foundation-Nepal

2. Introduction
The revolution in ICTs has profound implications for economic and social
development. It has pervaded every aspect of human life whether it is
health, education, economics, governance, entertainment, tourism etc.

3. ICT
ICT is a broad terminology referring to multiple communication
technologies which range from simple and complex namely Cell Phone
applications (SMS), Digital Cameras, Internet, Wireless (WiFi and
WiMAN), VOIP,GPS, GIS, Convergence (data, voice, media), Digital radio.

4. Why ICT
 Information is shared and disseminated to larger audience
 Knowledge is produced, transmitted, accessed and shared at the
minimum cost
 it has overcome the constraints of distance and geography
 It has led to more transparency

5. Tourism
Tourism is currently one of the fastest gowning industries across the
world. It is primarily a service industry as it does not produce goods but
renders services to various classes of people. It is an combination of
various interrelated industries and trade like food industry, transport
industry etc. It is an complicated business because it involves multiple
socio-economic activities like attracting people to a
destination, transporting them, housing, feeding and entertaining etc.

6. Role of ICT in Tourism
 ICT is crucial driving force in the current information driven society for
tourism
 It has provided new tools and enabled new distribution channels, thus
creating a new business environment
 The use of Geospatial Information Technologies in the recent years
across the globe for varied purposes is popularly known and Tourism
industry has not been an exception in availing its advantages
 The role of ICT tools in the industry for marketing, operation, and
management of customer is widely known

7. What Tools used?
 Mobile
 Laptop
 Desktop

8. What technology are we talking
Web 1.0 static websites designed by professionals
Web 2.0 easy to edit, dynamic, participative

9. Travel2.0

10. What not working here
 Not compatible for all device
 Not informative
 difficult to find prices, availability and tour times, not showing currency
conversions or a link to do it
 Not updated : out of date prices, discounts
 Not accurate mapping : stick a pin in a map of their location, but GPS taking
us far from it.
 Not good in search engine.
 Not recommended on social networks and travel networks.
 no instant contact method.
That’s why your website fails

11. Mobile: Great potential
 77% of people in this world own mobile devices
 85% mobile have a browser
 1.3 billion already use mobile internet
 62% people have mobile in Nepal.
 one of the interesting estimates is that there are about 35billion devices
connected to the Internet. Soon, there will be so many that we’ll stop
counting.-Eric Schmidt, Google
Think about these data while developing sites

12. Mobile: Great Potential-Tourism
 Mobile use is growing rapidly among travellers
 Over the past 6 months mobile web traffic to travel sites has increased
by 72%
 47% expects to use their mobile device for their travel need at their
destination
 37% will use mobile device for restaurant research
 26% will use a mobile device for attraction and accommodation
research
That’s why you need to make mobile compatibility sites and
applications

13. Limitation
 Unavailability of Internet and Education
 Reliability
 Fragmented Information
 Chances of misusing and misunderstanding of data/information
 Time Consuming
 Search engines for tourism
 Cost

16. Solution
 Awareness of scope and importance of digital way
 Participation
 User readability
 Open source

17. Way?
Lets make Open

18. Open Definition
 The Open Definition sets out principles to that define “openness” in
relation to data and content.
 “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and
redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute
and/or share-alike.”

26. Thank you
Prakash Neupane
9849083301
www.prakashneupane.com.np
Local Ambassador | OKFN-Nepal|www.np.okfn.org
Research and Development |Smart
Samaj|www.smartsamaj.com

27. References
 Headshift.com
 The power of mobile web for tourism
 ICT and Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities Deepthi Shanker*
 Blog.freebase.com