Jose Tomas I. Castillo Vasquez.
GDS
INTERNET ESSAY
In
the last 15 years, the internet was changed a lot, step from be a platform
where you could found accurate information of a lot of thing, to being an
interactive platform that keeps the people connected while one was in Asia and
the other one in America, they can interchange contents in thing of seconds.
In
the beginning the internet treat of web sites that in each one you can found
information about accurate things. Now in only one web sites you can find information
about a lot of things, interact, give opinions and download multimedia content,
etc. The social media was a clear example of this new platforms, there you can
be connected, update information, share contents, and interact with people of
all around the world.
From
other side, all this advances in the connectivity generate a dependence of the
people with their technologic artifacts, transforming people in exclaves of
their cell phones. Despite the all the benefits that the web 2.0 brings, that
being transform in a distractor of the daily works and the physical communication
between people, making the actuality an age of virtual connectivity, little
interest of create links between the closest and a comfortable lifestyle.
The
benefits that the web 2.0 brings to the tourism industry treat about of have
more information about the different places, searching the best prices and
comfort in the lodging, have knowledge of the attraction and commercial places
that you can find in the sites that you visited, making this way easier the planification
of a travel and the different activities that you can do in the long of time that
you will be in the place.
In
conclusion, the web 2.0 are so benefiter to the tourism industry, since, that
give you time to know what to do, how much money you need to spend and where
you can stay. This will make everything on your trip been as you want.