CWA 15992:2009

The CEN/ISSS Workshop on eTourism aims at producing guidelines for reaching global interoperability, i.e. enabling seamless data interchange and execution of eBusiness processes in the tourism sector. The Workshop’s main deliverable will be a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on “Harmonization of data interchange in tourism”. The CWA will cover the following topics under a pan-European interoperability perspective: a.  analysis and identification of the needs of B2B and B2C partners for harmonized data interchange; b.  analysis of the gaps in the design of current interoperability approaches; c.  description of the metadata and principles and requirements for data modelling; d.  analysis of business models and legal issues (IPRs5, DRMs, Personal data protection and privacy); e.  analysis of existing initiatives and approaches for flexible harmonization and global interoperability (including process interoperability); f.  recommendations concerning a general framework for eTourism related information exchange; g. best practice case.