Tools for Tourism 4.0: Novas Ferramentas para a atividade turística
 

June 11 to 14, 2019, Guimarães

Within the context of the CREATOUR project, this 30-hour course aims to provide participants with theoretical knowledge about Tourism Program 4.0 and technical knowledge on how to create interactive tourism activities using an Augmented Reality tool. In addition, it aims to provide practical skills to explore the different potentialities of Webmapping and Augmented Reality as new tools for tourism activity. This Summer School is intended for employees of municipal councils and tourist offices, and institutions and professionals who carry out activities linked to tourism. It is also open to the participation of the general public and university students.

Note: This course will be taught in Portuguese.

The course is structured in 6 modules for a total workload of 30 hours:
1 - Introduction to Tourism Program 4.0 (C.H. 3 hours) - Miguel Pereira (Lab2PT/University of Minho);
2 - Identification and acquisition of tourist resources (C.H. 7 hours) - Ricardo Gôja (Lab2PT/University of Minho);
3 - Database structuring (C.H. 5 hours) - Maurício Silva (I.B.G.E. and University of Minho);
4 - GIS applied to tourism (C.H. 5 hours) - Vítor Ribeiro (Lab2PT/University of Minho) and Carlos Alves (Lab2PT/University of Minho);
5 - Webmapping in tourism (C.H. 5 hours) - Vítor Ribeiro (Lab2PT/University of Minho); and
6 - Elaboration of an Augmented Reality app applied to tourism (C.H. 5 hours) - Miguel Pereira (Lab2PT/University of Minho).

Thematic areas of the course: Tourism 4.0, Webmapping, Augmented Reality, GIS applied to tourism

Coordinators: Juliana Araújo Alves and Paula Remoaldo (Universidade de Minho), Nancy Duxbury (CES)

Teaching team:
Vítor Ribeiro (Lab2PT – Universidade do Minho)
Miguel Pereira (Lab2PT – Universidade do Minho)
Maurício Gonçalves e Silva (I.B.G.E. and Universidade do Minho)
Carlos Alves (Lab2PT – Universidade do Minho)
Ricardo Gôja (Lab2PT – Universidade do Minho)

Location: ‘Laboratório de S.I.G.’ of the Department of Geography of the University of Minho, Azurém campus, Guimarães

Resources used:
Hardware: Computers of the GIS laboratory of the University of Minho
Software: QGis, App collector, ArcGIS Online, and Augeo

Maximum number of registrations: 20 participants | Minimum number of registrations: 15 participants > Deadline for registration: 11 may 2019