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PoC “Austria Experience Data Hub”

Reinhard Lanner , Katharina Pavelescu , Georg Semanek

Tired of scraping fragmented tourism data? The Austria Experience Data Hub provides a single location API, letting developers skip sourcing and focus entirely on application logic.

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Fragmented data challenges in the Austrian tourism industry

The decentralization of family-run hotels and independent services creates fragmented data silos that hinder digital tourism innovation.

#2 about 4 min

Connecting decentralized tourism data through a centralized hub

Establishing a proof of concept connects fragmented points of interest, mobility routing, and content providers into a unified system.

#3 about 8 min

Architectural layers of the location aggregation service

A middleware layer standardizes technical services, web crawling, and business logic into a single location aggregation endpoint.

#4 about 4 min

Consuming the location aggregation API via the developer portal

The developer hub offers standardized endpoints and quick start code snippets for language-agnostic application integration.

#5 about 3 min

Prototyping use cases and scaling technical operations

Future project phases focus on populating the innovation pipeline, building legal partnership models, and preparing the infrastructure for production loads.

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