TY - CONF A1 - Gocek, Pawel A1 - Hartmann, Michael A1 - Schleusener, Heinz A1 - Timčák, Geza T1 - Webportal using Web 2.0 Technology for the Špis Region T2 - 5th International Conference on Perspectives of rural tourism in the New Europe, Košice N2 - Portals are called web sites which are designed to offer services and/or an outline of special subjects. They have been developed as fast as information data bases and electronic communication facilities were extended. Recently, portals with geographically referenced information became important and popular for different fields like geo information systems of cities (see e. or the presentation of economically relevant data in the context of regional marketing, foreign direct investment or tourism by indicating important objects like public institutions, companies, hotels, sights, etc. on maps. In this manner they may contribute to the improvement of industrial structure and the marketing of a region. For representing geographical data on maps, applications with special client-server-architecture have to be developed. There are different solutions for the Internet using HTML and JavaScript, Flash or Java Applets. In our contribution we discuss currently available solutions and show an alternative approach. Our solution is based on the Java Applet technology and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). This technology is part of the web solutions known as Web 2.0 which is strongly discussed and developed in the present. Our results are demonstrated as a user-friendly web application with data of the Slovakian region Špis (Zips). An extended version of this web solution could be nicely incorporated into a modern concept for tourism of the Špis region. KW - Web 2.0 KW - Tourism Y1 - 2014 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-srh/frontdoor/index/index/docId/535 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Full text not available for copyright reasons. SP - 48 EP - 54 ER -