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About Asia City
This is a GIS project for the sectors of 'Tourism'
and 'Society', funded by the European Commission and has partners
from 5 different countries of Europe and Asia.
The need to plan tourism development according
to sustainability principles has been seen as a vital organizing
principle for the rapidly growing tourism industry. Thus the use
of a new technology like GIS plays an important role in the same.
Scope of the Project
- To liaise five Asian countries with European
ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Initiatives &
Programmes in the field of city info-mobility.
- To input and transfer know-how, for development
and implementation of European ICT Initiatives and Programmes
- This project envisages helping the development
of the Asian tourism industry mainly by bringing it in contact
with procedures which have successfully been adopted within
the EU providing pilot products in the field of on-line and
navigational information
Reasoning of the proposed
project
In the long term, South Asia's continuing power
of attraction as a tourist destination will eventually overcome
any shortcoming that is deterring the process currently.
The Asian countries involved in this project
obtain strategic location at the heart of South Asia. This, combined
with concerted efforts by their governments to build modern and
efficient transportation infrastructure, has made them important
tourist destinations in the region. They all hope to transform
their region into Tourism Capital in the 21st century, where South
Asia is a tourist destination, a tourism business centre and a
tourism hub.
The entity of the above matters as well as the
diversity of experiences of different countries underline the
necessity and the reasoning of development of cooperation in the
proposed project.
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Following the outstanding expansion of the information
society to all cities activities, it is well understood that world-citizens
have a demand for access to information from a specific city by
using new technologies, such as Internet and infokiosks. Additionally,
the cities have produced a significant amount of digital information
concerning their activities, administration, tourist and other
type of information. To this extent the use of GIS/IST (referred
to as ICT in India) technologies by various city departments is
growing rapidly and facilitates the need of citizens to use systems
for information acquisition on a real time, combining a digital
map and routing options.
Innovation of the project
It will be the first time that five South Asian
countries will join forces to (i) establish contacts with the
existing European ITC initiatives (RTD Framework Programme in
the fields of tourism, s/w technology, infomobility, (ii) input
and transfer of know-how deriving from Asian IT&C expertise,
to the development and implementation of European IT&C Initiatives
and Programmes.
Through the pilot applications which are envisaged,
and the "Joint Strategy" produced in the field of on-line
environmental city navigation the Asian and the European partners
will have the chance to provide governments with elements on:
- Redefining tourism where necessary
- Reformulating tourism promotional products
- Further developing tourism as an industry
- Configuring new tourism space
- Partnering for success.
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