Posted in Good to Know on august 17, 2007 | No Comments »
You certainly know those people who greet the tourists at an entry in the resorts or in the train station with “Rooms for rent” cards or clanging their keys in the hand, with the only purpose to accommodate the last minute tourists.
It seems that, from 2008, they will have to pay an annual lump sum [...]
Posted in Technologies, eTourism, etichetat Brasov, Info Kiosk on august 17, 2007 | 2 Comentarii »
I just found out from Realitatea TV website, that the Braşov city now has a tourist info kiosk just like the one in Albena, Bulgaria. The one in Braşov provides few more options like trains timetable services, e-mail and printing function for the desired information.
I’m just wondering, if it’s possible to download digital maps [...]
Posted in References, Technologies, Virtual Tours, etichetat Wiki on august 7, 2007 | No Comments »
VeniVidiWiki it’s a project developed on Google Maps platform which allows you to find desired locations for your vacation filtered by categories such as outdoors activities, events, locations etc.
You can add new locations and activities just by clicking the blue marker and entering as much information as possible.
As you can see, web 2.0 guides are [...]
Posted in Technologies, Virtual Tours, etichetat Eternal Egypt, LifePlus, Virtual Tours on august 2, 2007 | 1 comentariu »
Nowadays, virtual reconstructions of the ruined castles, fortress, temples or other kind of turistic objectives gain popularity among internet surfers due to the new technologies.
I just want to bring to your attention to the 2 projects: Eternal Egypt project, developed by egyptian government and IBM, and LifePlus, an EU’s project that digitally reconstructed Pompei.
Eternal Egypt [...]
