The project is expected to generate positive results in the following sectors:
National economy. The project is expected to support the national tourist industry by upgrading the available online tourist services and enhancing the satisfaction of potential visitors.
Competitiveness and profitability of tourist enterprises. The platform will engage potential users in planning personalized, hence, more attractive vacation packages, taking into consideration a number of options, preferences and limitations. This will promote users’ independence from intermediate actors (e.g., tour operators) and transfer significant profit to the actual service providers.
Sustainable development and competitiveness among regions. TouristHub aims at promoting the exploration of less popular regions and contributing to a more balanced distribution of tourism intensity and income, based on the best practices and principles of sustainable tourism and development.
Impact on education and research. Through the applied research that will be conducted in the framework of the project, academic partners will improve their know-how and expertise in a number of research fields (information systems design, optimization algorithms, etc.) and transfer the acquired knowledge to other related fields (such as logistics). This new knowledge will be invested on academic research, and is expected to upgrade the level of graduate and post-graduate programs.
Employment. The dissemination of the project’s results and the development of new dynamics in the tourism sector services, are expected to boost employment opportunities in the tourist industry. Furthermore, the implementation and technical management of the project itself will offer employment opportunities to a number of experts and young researchers.
