1. Fundación IBIT Fundación IBIT: turisLAB

2. Fundación iBit R+D public organism founded in 1998 and dependent of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Government of Balearic Islands. Purpose: to promote the progress of Balearic Islands in Information Society, Knowledge and Technological Innovation areas Governing Board:  Government of Balearic Islands  Telefónica  Sa Nostra www.ibit.org/home/en/

3. turisLAB turisLAB In 2008, Fundació iBit signed a collaboration agreement with turisTEC creating the turisLAB figure to convert R+D results in industrial product. The goal is to improve the competitivity of the tourism sector Cluster of companies and institutions dedicated to the production and implementation of technological solutions for the Tourism Industry. It is composed by 75 members turisTEC www.turistec.org

4. Aim to develop ICT projects for the tourism sector (launched at regional, national and European levels) Future to become the technological center of reference on Research and Development in ICT for touristic branches turisLAB Project Portfolio 2010

5. CAVAL initiative that promotes the development of an open standard of data interoperability for the travel and tourism industry. Actions: Matrícula turística, creation of a unique resource identificator for tourist resources (telematic code) Web service technical specifications for interoperability along the value chain Flight Delay Data Monitoring System, delay management related to aerial transport AL4Tour, semantic crawling and analysis of online reputation data for hotels MashupTV, creation of interactive touristic digital TV channels over IP e-factura, extensions of the Facturae format, electronic invoice for travel industry Predictive models portal, hotel demand forecast using reservation histories FotoID, photoidentification techniques applied to conservation of natural species http://www.caval.travel turisLAB Project Portfolio 2010

6. turisLAB R+D+i areas InteroperabilityIT-Tourism Web Services Semantic web Data mining Image analysis & computer vision

7. turisLAB Proposals Optimus, hotel multi-channel distribution optimization systems Related topics: Revenue Management, hotel online reservations, optimization, multichannel distribution,e-business, predictive models Open Profile-Pro, professional collaboration networks management Related topics: Social networks in profesional environments, Semantic web, network analysis, RDF, interoperability standards, collaborative network management

8. Thanks for your attention Further information: Óscar Moya - omoya@ibit.org