Tools and Resources Supporting the Cultural Tourism

The diffusion of internet and the information technologies are creating continuous information flows. There is a widespread awareness of the added value and of the role that the Web has in dissemination, exploitation and promotion of the cultural tourism, especially in a country like Italy, where the cultural heritage is very important. Moreover, an open philosophy causes problems of authoritativeness in the production of contents because it is characterized by a strong interaction among users thus creating a distance between knowledge and communication. The spread of internet has brought the significant changes of communication paradigm. Nowadays the competition decreases among contents, even among from sources published in potential competition with them. In network logic, all nodes are interdependent and represent a single large hypertext. The proliferation of paths boosts a free circulation of ideas and can bring out most interesting contents.