The V4DIS project is focused on development and use of digital services and smart administration of towns and municipalities of V4 countries in the field of eTourism. Current progress in the level of digitalization of the whole society brings necessity to solve life situations online, to look up relevant information fast or to get ongoing education, and that is thanks to modern technologies and procedures that simplify life.
From the point of view of tourism, municipalities must be able to present interesting destinations and possibilities that are offered to national as well as international visitors.
Cooperation of V4 in promotion of tourist destinations
“I consider web pages to be one of the most important tools of communication and that is both with local citizens and with numerous tourists, as there annually arrives here up to half million of them,” claims deputy mayor of the township Karlštejn, Janis Sidovský. “We also set up social networks, we use Facebook and Instagram and they provide for us also feedback from the visitors to Karlštejn.”
Jan Šnyrych, an informatics and web accessibility expert, spoke on the issue of accessibility of (not only) tourist information in the online space for the blind and partially sighted, who also presented a practical demonstration of the use of inclusive technologies in a video lecture.
“Web pages of Trenčín city have won in the competition GoldenCrest.sk already for a few times,” say Radoslav Jánoš, webmaster of the web pages www.trencin.sk and www.visit.trencin.sk and Janka Sedláčková, head of the Department of Cultural Information Services of Trenčín city.
Tibor Szepesi, lord mayor of the City of Karcag: “We spend a great deal of time showing our settlement so that the visitors, the people who live here enjoy themselves and receive all the information, all the information that gives them their everyday life, their stay here, the city´s past, present and, of course, its future.”
In the discussion, Jakub Janda, Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Tourism, and the founders of international IT conferences in the V4 countries ITAPA (Lucia Kondáš) and ISSS (Tomáš Renčín) discussed the benefits of conference tourism for such events, their past and especially future prospects.
