"The HYPERTOUR project aimed at developing a comprehensive business procedure for the planning, production, distribution and exploitation of multimedia applications in the field of tourist information. The project addressed a wide spectrum of needs for tourism-related multimedia applications in a business-centered manner (or approach) covering the entire life-cycle of development. Its objectives were -(1) the establishment (set-up) of six multimedia pilots in five Eu countries (which form the Hypertour Users Association (HUA), covering both the business and the technical processes, -(2) the formulation of a generic organisation and business framework for such applications, -(3) the development of a technical platform, in order to reduce the cost and increase the quality and revenue of multimedia products in the field, and -(4) the development of authoring guidelines and template libraries in commercial authoring systems and of asset databases and applications in each pilot.
ICS-FORTH worked on the development of a resource database for commercial authoring of tourist-related publications."