XFT language allows the tourism sector to interact and to communicate thanks to a common language. The objectives: Rationalize, simplify and increase the exchanges to get more and more rapidity, proximity, productivity.

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Hack4Europe! is a series of hack days organised by the Europeana Foundation and its partners and provides an exciting environment to explore the potential of open cultural data for social and economic growth in Europe.

The idea: The Hack Day Hack4Europe! 2012 Berlin will bring together up to 30 developers from Germany and other European countries in a two day event. They will have access to the diverse and rich Europeana collections containing over 20 million records through the Europeana Search API (incl. a test key and technical documentation).

Meeting in Trento with companies and institutions in the context of the coorperation between the province of Trentino and Isreal in the fields of economic and cultural developements.

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Inés Matres – assistant of the project partner Foundation Prussian Cultural Heritage (SPK) – will hold a keynote on:

“Euromuse.net – The exhibition portal for Europe. Exhibitons and Musuems in the field of cultural tourism”. Euromuse.net will be presented focusing on the exhibition information transferability provided by Harmonise.

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CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The key target groups are users from industry, the wholesale/retail sector, skilled trades, banks, the services sector, government agencies, science and all users passionate about technology. CeBIT offers an international platform for comparing notes on current industry trends, networking, and product presentations.

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The whole variety of travelling is present at ITB Berlin: Destinations, tour operators, booking systems, carriers, hotels and all other suppliers who want to embellish their customers’ most beautiful weeks of the year. ITB Berlin brightens your business.

ITB Berlin is THE B2B-Platform for trade visitors – an excellent opportunity to meet business partners and to do business. For all other visitors ITB Berlin is a wonderful possibility to discover the whole world within a few hours.

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Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER 2012 offers a worldwide and unique forum for attendees from academia, industry, government, and other organizations to actively exchange, share, and challenge state-of-the-art research and industrial case studies on the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism.

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On 5-6 December 2011, the European Commission is holding its first Innovation Convention following the adoption of the Innovation Union Flagship initiative in October 2010.

This major event will gather more than 1200 participants involved in the innovation chain, including high-level policy makers, leading CEOs, deans of universities and research centres, bankers, venture capitalists, top researchers and innovators.

Take part in the exhibition – the call for exhibitors is open!

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