Open Data and tourism
Publication Date/Time
2017-06-21T09:00:00+00:00
Use Open Data to prepare your holiday trip
With the summer holidays just around the corner, people are planning
trips to numerous places all over Europe. Finding the right travel
destination is not always easy, with a lot of competitive destinations
throughout Europe. And what kind of activities can be undertaken at
your destination? Here, Open Data can help out - both for the
preparation of your trip as well as for travel information on the
spot. And there is Open Data for all kind of travel purposes,
regardless of whether you are going to visit a city, explore nature or
relax on the beaches.

For instance, 695 datasets are found for "camping
[/data/en/dataset?q=camping]" on the European Data Portal. An example
is a dataset originating from Saarland
[/data/en/dataset/9c0ba4e0-0811-af13-11d9-d12a752dad7801], one of the
sixteen Bundesländer of Germany. It presents the campsites in the
Saarland area. Similar information can be found for Vienna
[/data/en/dataset/stadt-wien_campingpltzestandortewien]. If you prefer
a hotel over a camping, then other datasets might be of more interest
to you, showing for instance hotels in the German city of Rostock
[/data/en/dataset/60bc625b-655b-4599-a6d4-1a177d8e2e4a01].
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/img/media/featured-data_20170621_image_1.png]
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But once you have found your destination, what are the best things to
do and see on your holidays? Again, Open Data helps out. There are
numerous datasets available on the European Data Portal that show
tourist information, such as points of interest: for instance points
of interest on Sardegna
[/data/en/dataset/punti-interesse-strutture-turistiche], Italy. As you
can see in the figure depicted below, this Italian island is full of
points of interests. The same is true for tourist attractions
[/data/en/dataset/tourist-attractions] located within Barrow borough
Councils administrative area (United Kingdom).
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Do you still need to prepare your trip or would you like to know what
kind of activities you can undertake at your holiday destination? Use
Open Data, and explore the data [/data/en/dataset]available on the
European Data Portal! Search for instance on "tourism
[/data/en/dataset?q=tourism&sort=metadata_modified+desc&ext_geo_input=&ext_bbox=&ext_prev_extent=-154.68749999999997%2C-80.17871349622823%2C154.68749999999997%2C80.17871349622823]"
or "holidays
[/data/en/dataset?q=holidays&sort=metadata_modified+desc&ext_geo_input=&ext_bbox=&ext_prev_extent=-154.68749999999997%2C-80.17871349622823%2C154.68749999999997%2C80.17871349622823]"
