The main beneficiaries of a DMS are potential travelers, the providers of tourism products and services, national travel agents and outbound travel agents, national tourism institutions, IT providers and investors.

Trends and developments in the online tourism market

The global tourism market is dominated by a number of integrated suppliers of tourism product packages.

In order to market their tourism products efficiently, destination and tourism providers should keep abreast of technological developments and standards.

Experts emphasized that smaller tourism providers are better off cooperating as opposed to competing to achieve a stronger position in the tourism market.

These associations support small tourism providers by jointly advertising their accommodation offer and thus enabling small providers to better market their tourism product.

Internet based distribution of tourism products has become crucial for effective market entry and for the competitiveness of tourism operators from developing countries.

Outbound movements of 26,000 Afghan pilgrims to Saudi Arabia occurred without incident.

However, new technology has allowed other non traditional providers of tourism services such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo to enter the distribution market for tourism services and become providers of e tourism.

By 1998, four GDS were managing about 80 per cent of the world tourism market.

For the large majority of developing countries, their share in the international tourism market, in terms of both international tourism arrivals and receipts, is still small.

Every channel available, whether it is off or online, should be used to market tourism information.

But managing the tourism market in a way that can really benefit the people is very important.

ICTs can be effective tools for developing countries to market their tourism offer and increase their customer base.

The control of inbound and outbound operations at home and overseas provides integrated suppliers with absolute advantages.

The majority of developing countries are mainly concerned with setting up informative e tourism websites to market their destinations.

ICTs are the most effective tools for developing countries to market their tourism offer and increase their customer base.

Accordingly, DMOs need to have a comprehensive vision of existing and potential market segments, tourism evolution and prospects, consumers' tourism related Internet usage and tourism behaviour to be able to translate them into web based technologies and adequate services (languages, presentation, content) and marketing campaigns.

Eco tourism, cultural and natural heritage tourism, health and medical tourism and adventure tourism are some of the tourism niches that are increasingly marketed by destinations and tourism enterprises in developing countries.

With the advent of new technologies and the globalization of markets, supply of tourism products began to focus on targeting different segments of the market within the framework of e tourism and circumventing intermediation.

Cultural heritage tourism (or just heritage tourism or diaspora tourism) is a branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring.

Today's online tourism is a very dynamic market, and the number of providers, both generalists and niche players, is rapidly increasing.

The ETP will allow developing, least developed and small island countries to organize, market and sell their own tourism services online.

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Market trends increasingly reveal the growing demand for diversified travel experiences, from seaside resorts (often linked to mass tourism) to cultural discoveries.

Proportionately, tourism will grow faster in less developed countries than in developed economies over the next ten years, and there is a growing market interest in rural and activity tourism compared with staying in traditional resorts.

The use of ICT tools such as DMSs should assist them in their efforts to market their tourism offer globally and to ensure the strategic management of their destinations to ultimately improve their competitiveness on tourism markets.

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ICTs help DMOs and tourism providers organize their resources (databases, data processing), network with business partners, and distribute and market products on the web.

Its main goals are to support the traveler decision process and to allow developing and least developed countries to organize, market and distribute online aggregated tourism services from SMEs, traditionally kept out of the market.

Despite changes in distribution channels, such market outcomes as leakages and the question of the commercial viability of tourism in developing countries continue to prevail.

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