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E-tourism, also known as e-tourism includes activities in the tourism sector, on the Internet. Although it is increasingly gear today to talk about e-tourism as tourism and new technologies are inexorably bound to converge to a completely tourism to a digital. For users, the e-tourism offers ways to prepare, organize and book their travel via the Internet: identification of the destination, purchase transportation, development of an itinerary, accommodation booking, information exchange with other surfers.

Appeared in 1998, the e-tourism is a way of promoting and booking essential in the tourism and travel. Users and consumers of e-tourism are designated by the world of marketing as touristonautes tourists or online.

The area of e-tourism currently brings together many tourism stakeholders as well as new entrants pure play.

• Tourism businesses: travel agency online service hotel, airline, railway or navigation.
• Editing and publishing: travel guide, magazine, travel blogs (the "infomediaries" websites specializing in travel information).
• Technologies: Compare prices, aggregator, search engine and metasearch specializes in travel.
• Institutional actors: tourist office, CRT, CDT, Minister, observatories.

The m-tourism is the declination of mobile phones, e-tourism.

Numerous exhibitions and conferences are now dedicated to e-Tourism among them are:

• Encounters eTourism institutional Pau in October, three.
• Travel in multimedia (MEC) in St Raphael on February 4.
• Tourism Professionals meeting in Sierre (Valais) - Switzerland on December 5.