European Data Space for Tourism

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To turn the vision of a European Tourism Data Space into reality, DATES brings together key actors of the tourism and data ecosystems and their wide public, business and research partner networks. Convinced that tourism data are crucial for the data economy in a European Single Digital Market, DATES will develop a measurable contribution for the digital transformation of the services sector that can significantly strengthen the European competitiveness. The project outcomes provide a basis for governance and policy making to foster innovation powered by tourism data and will enable society to make Europe most desired sustainable space for living. Starting from a mapping of the European tourism data landscape, and leveraging on European initiatives on data sharing, DATES will reach out to relevant stakeholders to collaboratively develop a shared strategy roadmap for building a sustainable tourism data space. The process will define clear objectives and key results to inspire, support and motivate all stakeholders to contribute and use high quality tourism data as a basis for innovation. DATES will provide recommendations for governance and digital business models and it will highlight how benefits for society can be created. Key success factors will be identified, and it will be outlined how a tourism data space can create added benefits for the tourism industry and all sectors that tourism is interlinked with. In addition to providing a comprehensive inventory of existing platforms sharing relevant data, blueprints for addressing technical and organisational challenges will be created to spark and fuel usage of interoperability standards and participation in a tourism data space to foster the digital transformation of SMEs in tourism and relevant cross-sector industries. DATES will be a kick-start for implementation of a European Tourism Data Space by involving all players on the supply and demand side through the strong ecosystem representatives of the DATES.