V4DIS

Video conference V4DIS 2021—eTourism

International Visegrad Fund

The V4DIS project is focused on development and use of digital services and smart administration of towns and municipalities of V4 countries in the field of eTourism. Current progress in the level of digitalization of the whole society brings necessity to solve life situations online, to look up relevant information fast or to get ongoing education, and that is thanks to modern technologies and procedures that simplify life.

From the point of view of tourism, municipalities must be able to present interesting destinations and possibilities that are offered to national as well as international visitors.

Opening words

Opening words
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  • Jan Pokorný, Host
  • Miloš Vystrčil, President of the Senate of the Czech Republic
  • Jan Ferenčák, Mayor of the City of Kežmarok
  • Jiří Běhounek, Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Vicechairman of the Committee on Health Care
  • Anna Zabska, President of the Local Touristic Organisation of the Walbrzych Agglomeration, CEO of the Castle Książ in Walbrzych

National strategies in e-tourism—Czech Republic

National strategies in e-tourism—Czech Republic
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Cooperation of V4 in promotion of tourist destinations

  • Jan Herget, Managing director of the CzechTourism agency

V4 cross-border cooperation in the time of crisis—discussion

V4 cross-border cooperation in the time of crisis—discussion
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  • Anna Zabska, President of the Local Touristic Organisation of the Walbrzych Agglomeration, CEO of the Castle Książ in Walbrzych
  • Bartosz Powiecki, Marketing director of the Krysztal hotel and Mariental brewery
  • Tereza Matějková, Chief manager of the Czech Convention Bureau
  • Tomáš Mička, Director of the Odkryj Czechy/Poznej Polsko project

Lessons learned from the evaluation of the online presentations

Lessons learned from the evaluation of the online presentations
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“I consider web pages to be one of the most important tools of communication and that is both with local citizens and with numerous tourists, as there annually arrives here up to half million of them,” claims deputy mayor of the township Karlštejn, Janis Sidovský. “We also set up social networks, we use Facebook and Instagram and they provide for us also feedback from the visitors to Karlštejn.”

  • Jitka Hajžmanová, Manager of the Golden Crest competition
  • Janis Sidovský, Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Karlštejn

eAccessibility of the destinations web pages

eAccessibility of the destinations web pages
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Jan Šnyrych, an informatics and web accessibility expert, spoke on the issue of accessibility of (not only) tourist information in the online space for the blind and partially sighted, who also presented a practical demonstration of the use of inclusive technologies in a video lecture.

  • Jan Šnyrych, IT consultant, e-accessibility expert

Best practices from Trenčín

Best practices from Trenčín
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“Web pages of Trenčín city have won in the competition GoldenCrest.sk already for a few times,” say Radoslav Jánoš, webmaster of the web pages www.trencin.sk and www.visit.trencin.sk and Janka Sedláčková, head of the Department of Cultural Information Services of Trenčín city.

  • Radoslav Jánoš, webmaster trencin.sk, visit.trencin.sk, City of Trenčín
  • Jana Sedláčková, Department of Cultural Information Services, City of Trenčín

Best practices from Karcag

Best practices from Karcag

Tibor Szepesi, lord mayor of the City of Karcag: “We spend a great deal of time showing our settlement so that the visitors, the people who live here enjoy themselves and receive all the information, all the information that gives them their everyday life, their stay here, the city´s past, present and, of course, its future.”

  • Tibor Szepesi, Lord Mayor of the City of Karcag

Congress tourism and its future

Congress tourism and its future
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In the discussion, Jakub Janda, Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Tourism, and the founders of international IT conferences in the V4 countries ITAPA (Lucia Kondáš) and ISSS (Tomáš Renčín) discussed the benefits of conference tourism for such events, their past and especially future prospects.

  • Jakub Janda, Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Chairman of Subcommittee on Tourism
  • Lucia Kondáš, Co-founder of the ITAPA conference
  • Tomáš Renčín, Director of the ISSS and V4DIS conferences

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