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Our e-tourism ontologies provide a way
of viewing the world of tourism. They organize tourism-related information and
concepts. It will become clear later how the ontologies will allow us to achieve
integration and interoperability through the use of a shared vocabulary and meanings
for terms with respect to other terms. It should be noted that this is a work in
progress; our tourism ontologies are not complete yet. We are still gathering new
concepts for the taxonomies and developing new axioms.
Our ontologies were built to answer three main questions (Figure 10) that can be
asked when developing dynamic packages for a tourist: what, where, and when.
??? What. What can a tourist see, visit, and what can he do while staying at a
tourism destination?
??? Where. Where are the interesting places to see and visit located?
??? When. When can the tourist visit a particular place? This includes not only
the day of the week and the hours of the day, but also the atmospheric conditions
of the weather. For example, some activities cannot be undertaken if it
is raining.
Figure 10.


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