In the case of tourism applications, it is particularly evident that geography is emerging as a fundamental principle for
structuring Web resources. Recent improvements in semantic and geographic Web technology, often referred to as the Geospatial Web, acknowledge the relevance of adding location metadata to existing databases and accessing the vast amounts of information
stored in these databases via geospatial services. This paper outlines the acquisition of geospatial context information,
describes usage scenarios and real-world applications in the tourism industry, and presents an automated software tool for
annotating large collections of Web documents automatically. The quality of this tool is tested based upon Web pages from
the Austrian National Tourism Organization. Initial results are encouraging and help define a roadmap for further improving
the automated tagging of tourism resources.
Keywords geotagging - text mining - information retrieval - tourism information systems