Open Data Archive - Open Data Destination Germany

18 03, 2025

Open data in tourism: innovation through AI and structured data

2025-03-18T11:21:18+01:0018. March 2025|DMO, Open Data, Project Progress, Strategy, Technologies and backgrounds|

Structured data and AI are driving digital change in tourism. Projects such as the GNTB's Open Data/Knowledge Graph are creating tools such as "Emma", an AI-supported travel companion that provides personalized recommendations and inspires users. Open data: revolution in tourism Digitalization is changing tourism, especially through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Travellers increasingly expect personalized recommendations and technologies that make their planning and experiences easier. AI-based travel planners and virtual assistants play a key role in this. Until now, the focus of many destinations has been on directing users to their websites. In [...]

28 10, 2024

Digital challenges in tourism

2024-10-28T15:16:11+01:0028. October 2024|Data Management, DMO, Open Data, Smart Destination, State Marketing Organizations, Strategy, Technologies and backgrounds, Technology|

Digitalization is making travel planning more individual and authentic. Visitors are using digital channels and information sources more and more when planning their trip, but above all on site. And this is completely independent of their destination. The decision for or against a vacation destination is made quickly, usually with a click or a tap of the finger. In order to master these digital challenges in tourism in the coming years, the strength of a networked and united industry is urgently needed. Above all, the (open) data from tourism associations and companies will flow into new services and [...]

3 08, 2023

Intelligent language applications in tourism

2023-08-03T12:26:20+02:003. August 2023|Open Data, Technologies and backgrounds, Technology|

How do intelligent speech applications work? Intelligent speech recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) offer a variety of opportunities in the tourism industry to improve customer service, enable personalized experiences, and increase operational efficiencies. The use of Open Data, i.e. freely accessible and open data sources that are available in the form of a Knowledge Graph, makes these technologies even more powerful and more extensively used. The speech applications are based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. They use this technology to understand, interpret, and respond to natural language. The basic steps of how these applications work include: Natural [...]

30 06, 2023

The future of data management for inbound tourism to Germany

2023-06-30T14:27:10+02:0030. June 2023|Data Management, Open Data, Strategy|

I am happy to announce that the German tourism industry’s biggest ever data infrastructure project is now live! Today, in conjunction with all project participants, we finally brought the GNTB Knowledge Graph on stream. Over the past three years, we have put in a lot of hard work – and shown great agility and vision – in order to get this collaborative project up and running. At this point, I would like to thank my team and all the various partners, the 16 regional marketing organisations for the federal states, the Magic Cities marketing association, the travel technology [...]

29 06, 2023

Going-live Knowledge Graph

2023-10-25T15:53:22+02:0029. June 2023|Open Data, Press release, Project Progress, Strategy|

Statements of the managing directors of the state tourism organizations on the going-live of the Knowledge Graph "The rapid progress of artificial intelligence has highlighted how fast technology is evolving and changing our lives. AI applications are also an example of how important digitalisation and structured data are to our industry. The onus is on tourism organisations to tackle this development at all levels to ensure that they do not get left behind. At TMBW, we are stepping up our work in this area, establishing a team for data management and digitalisation, and [...]

27 06, 2023

Access for data retrieval

2023-10-12T09:08:22+02:0027. June 2023|Open Data, Technologies and backgrounds, Technology|

Request access to data retrievalFrom now on, data users and interested parties can easily and conveniently request access to the application interface (API) for the Knowledge Graph.Three steps to data utilizationSend e-mail to open-data@germany.travel indicating company, e-mail address and name of contact personReceive email with access data (API key) for data retrievalInitialize API and retrieve dataSome partners are in the final stages of implementing their databases, connecting to the Knowledge Graph, or sharing data. They will provide their data shortly. In addition, further properties will be successively added to the individual data types and corresponding data will be made [...]

13 12, 2022

Speak, not type

2022-12-14T15:02:56+01:0013. December 2022|Open Data, Technologies and backgrounds, Technology|

How conversational AI is changing communication in tourism In view of the shortage of skilled workers and digitization, the need for intelligent search functions and chatbot solutions is increasing. If the applications are based on well-structured and open data, conversational AI could transform communication in tourism. For many people, especially younger ones, the use of voice interfaces is now taken for granted - typing is increasingly perceived as a nuisance. Accordingly, access to tourism data and services in natural language has a high future potential for tourism applications supported by artificial intelligence (AI). It is expected that intelligent [...]

17 02, 2022

How the largest digital infrastructure project in tourism is taking shape

2023-07-04T09:42:19+02:0017. February 2022|Open Data|

In 2022, the digital transformation in German tourism will reach a new dimension. With the opening of the Knowledge Graph for free data retrieval, the largest digital infrastructure project of the German tourism industry becomes reality. The progress of the overall project is impressive evidence of the tourism industry's strong shoulder to shoulder - especially in the Corona crisis years of 2020 and 2021. At the same time, the cross-company and cross-industry collection and semantic labeling of decentralized data inventories in a knowledge graph is considered an exemplary nationwide data infrastructure project in the German economy. In order [...]

2 02, 2022

Shaping tourism with data diversity

2022-12-12T10:52:32+01:002. February 2022|Open Data|

The power of data "The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data," wrote IT expert and founder of the data management company Igneous, Kiran Bhageshpur in an article for the Economist in 2017. In fact, just a few years ago, it was all about the sheer volume of data. The common perception is that those who collect a lot of data gain competitive advantages. This was countered by concerns, for example around the issue of data protection and the prejudice that data was only something "for the big companies". However, current technological developments have added [...]

2 12, 2021

Viewpoints – AI Applications in Use at Regional Marketing Organisations

2023-06-01T08:26:14+02:002. December 2021|Open Data|

Artificial intelligence will bring rapid changes to tourism. The organisations that represent the regions and the individual destinations are beginning to lay the groundwork to ensure that this transition is a success. The first AI applications are already at work in the field. An overview. AI will open up new possibilities in many areas for society and business. And it will do so for tourism too. Machine learning and algorithms are already hinting at the possibilities, and while we like to write about these scenarios in the future tense, this is a future [...]