ConTur: an intelligent content management system for the tourism sector Germán Herrero Cárcel a , Aida Campo b , Maria Gil b , Ana Garcia c , David Martin, Ion Zugasti d , Sonia Bilbao e , Amalia Perez f , Hristo Koshutanski g , Antonio Maña g and Iñaki Perez De Albeniz h a Atos Research & Innovation, Atos Spain, Spain [german.herrero]@atos.net b Andago Labs,Andago, Spain [aida.campo, maria.gil]@andago.com c Dome Consulting, Spain [agarcia]@dome-consulting.com d Cooperative Research Center in Tourism, CICtourGUNE, Spain [david.martin, ion.zugasti]@tourgune.org e Tecnalia Corporacion Tecnológica, Spain [sonia.bilbao]@tecnalia.com f Universidad de Burgos, Spain [apromero]@ubu.es g Computer Science Department, Universidad de Malaga, Spain [hristo,amg]@lcc.uma.es h Barcelo Viajes, Spain [i.perez]@barceloviajes.com Abstract Nowadays, tourists have access to a lot of different web sites in order to find information about destinations. This has a direct impact on tourism destination management organizations and tourism providers. These stakeholders have a lot of problems in order to find reliable and up-to- date information about their destinations. This paper presents an innovative solution that helps to promote tourism destinations through an intelligent, reliable and comprehensive content management platform that integrates different online heterogeneous and distributed information sources. This platform is described and validated in two different scenarios: “Portal Destino 3.0”, a tourism portal managed by a public organization and “Mi Guia Multidestino”, a personalized online web travel guide. Keywords: intelligent content management system, semantic annotation, intelligent travel guides, semantic content integration. 1 Introduction Although often underestimated as a marginal sector, the tourism sector plays a strategic role with a considerable market share for the European continent. Europe is still the leading tourism market worldwide with more than half of the global market