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City 2.0 and Tourism Development
Karim Fraoua and Christian Bourret
Equipe Dispositifs d’Information et de Communication à l’Ere Numérique (DICEN)
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Université Paris-Est
77454 Marne-la-Vallée
France
fraoua@univ-mlv.fr
Abstract. Carefully cities have to evolve in order to help tourist during their
travel. The huge use of web 2.0, must force the cities to be more and more im-
plied in this area. The role of referenced website and those of community
manager will be greater in the future and contributes to the attractiveness of the
territories. Nowadays, the social web is obviously essential strategy in informa-
tion retrieval or gathering during holidays preparation and will be more and
more important to help travellers during the travel.
Keywords: tourist, visitor, marketing, website, city, attractiveness.
1 Introduction
The idea of this paper is to help the whole community of tourism to make travel more
and more pleasant. Two ideas will emerge from this work, one is creating community
managing in the official website of the city gathering of course all the information,
undeniably useful to tourists such as places to visit, train schedules or bus, the loca-
tion of the taxi station etc. For this purpose, we can imagine a wifi born located in
some place of the city where the tourist can be connected and the map of the area
should be presented. This free connection, could help the tourist during his visit,
furthermore the use of mashup approaches using different techniques are affordable
nowadays. The approach of developing these technologies by official website is to
respond to a new behavior of tourist when they are visiting the cities, they are in
needs of more information since they are optimizing their time during their holidays
and in order to make their vacation more happiest which is their goal and those of the
city. We know that the words of mouth are efficient to incite other tourist to visit the
city. The new way to the transmission of this mode of communication is electronic
and named the web 2.0
In fact, they want to relate their holidays to others, if they have spent a well mo-
ments, and if the city was in a positive role to help them during their holiday. The
majors problems encountered during the holidays are well known as the place to visit,
in some cities, they face to the cost of things since they don’t know the fair prices, the
bus or train timetable, the location of taxi station and the rules of the city. One of the