AFACT TT&L WG Report 30 May 2014 Akio Suzuki TT&L WG Chair

What Has Been Done TT&L WG proceeded based on the agreed agenda with 10 members from Thailand, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. 1.ETDA presentation on Thai tourism Industry 1) In Thailand Tourism industry is one of the largest industries. 2) ETDA is supporting the industry for their IT usage. 3) Translation of address into English is one them working with the Royal Institute for Information Technology. 4) They had a meeting with the Chiang Mai Tourism Industry people to work for the AFACT TT&L WG and they are supportive for the destination related projects.

What Has Been Done (2) 2. Scope of the activities of TT&L WG 1) The chart describing the scope of the group was shown to know what has been done and what to do in the future. 2) Questions on the relationship with conventional industry leading companies were raised. a. For the destination travel information, they have a need to work for the integration with the public information which government has and the private one each company has b. We will keep studying on what consumers need and find as best as good relationship among the industry parties.

What Has Been Done (3) 3. SLH International Pilot Project 1) The members are gradually participating the project, when the software still has some of its part under development. 2) The operation was shown to make sure how to do, during which we found some malfunctioning points to be amended soon. 3) The system and the procedure for translation into local language was also shown and the detailed paper will be distributed among the participating members soon. 4) The SLH test properties of each participating countries will be appearing in the test site from the next month test period. 5) III will be trying to find appropriate partners for the project in Taiwan.

What Has Been Done (4) 4. Smart Tourism using cloud technology 1) III of Taiwan presented their endeavor in the joint session with TMC and CSC. 2) They will be cooperatively working with TT&L WG in the coming years, because they have a close working relationship with the DTI project.

What Has Been Done (5) 5. DTI Project 1) DTI Project in Korea was shown. Updated BRS of this project was also shown. The document will be forwarded for further consideration to the members. 2) Smart Tourism project proposed by III will be taken care of in this DRI project. 6. AppCross Software presented by III 1) AppCross software is shown to the members for the first time. 2) This will be discussed further to find out whether this is applicable for the DTI project in the future. 7. Others 1) TT&L WG members desire to have 2 full day, or at least 1 and a half of the day, working time. 2) TT&L WG web site is desired among the members and this will be talked in the coming virtual meeting.