About IFITTDr. Wolfram Höpken
Dr. Wolfram Höpken is director of the eTourism Competence
Center Austria (ECCA). In this position he is responsible for IT-oriented research
and development projects in the area of eTourism. The most important research
areas of the ECCA are intelligent trip planning and recommendation systems,
customisation, mobile services, semantic web & interoperability, web mining
& data warehousing and decision support systems. Prior to this position
Wolfram Höpken has been working for over ten years for Amadeus Global Travel
Distribution c/o Amadeus Germany as a software engineer, technology consultant
and project manager.
Wolfram Höpken studied computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his PhD from the University of Darmstadt. His main research area is the harmonisation of electronic markets in the field of tourism. He has founded the IFITT RMSIG, a special interest group within IFITT for elaborating a reference model for electronic tourism markets, and is responsible for managing the process of building a tourism ontology within the Harmonise and Harmoten initiative. Wolfram Höpken is a regular speaker of conferences in the tourism domain.
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