The purpose of this project is to research Electronic Commerce trends in the national and international tourism industry. The trends in electronic tourism markets are examined and the services provided by existing tourism portal sites are analysed. The scope of the project is to assess alternative business models on the web and identify tourism services requirements that emanate from these business models, providing high quality information for the development of an advanced system providing tourism services through the Internet. The project delivers an in-depth description of the online B2B and B2C markets for tourism services, the analysis of what the needs and/or the requirements of the tourism market are, and, finally, a description of services that are provided by tourism portal sites.
