1. Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones: “Sistema Integral para el Control de Espacios Naturales y Rurales”
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Viñals Blasco, María José, Hernández Franco, Carlos, and Muñoz García, Salvador
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L. Information technology and library technology - Abstract
The paper presents an "Integral System for the Control of Natural and Rural Spaces" based on the Technologies of Information and Communications (TIC) applied to the tourist activity. The tourism, as other sectors, cannot be stayed foreign to the changes that the TIC permit as far as the increase of the competitiveness, the possibility of supplying new services to the user, the increase of the quality and the efficiency, diminution of costs, a promotion much more effective , etc. The TIC applied to the tourist sector acquire protagonism with the development of Internet, which has entailed to a reframing of its activities and the way to make them, facilitating promotion and commercialization, management of the demand, controlling the lifting capacity of the tourist resource accord to the number of accesses and the impact on the environment and the climate, etc. And the possibility of this integral control on the natural and rural resources is important since the changes that are been operating in the tourist activity entail, fundamentally, to an increase of the nature tourism, the ecotourism, the rural and cultural tourism, etc. The dissemination of these tourist contents through Internet would be to consider technical and non technical aspects related to the Information Society, such as the limitations of present bandwidth of the network, the policy of flat tariffs, the security, confidentiality, integrity and authentication of the communications, protection of the author rights on these contents and designs over the national borders of each country, the cultural values of other towns, etc.
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- 2003