Short project description :
The evaluation, the choices, the spontaneous decisions when it comes to buy products or to look for touristic information (long distance flights, short trips, holidays’ destination, attraction for new regions, good deals on week ends, unscheduled trips,...) are today strongly influenced by the Internet and the touristic websites. A first evaluation of the impact of the Internet on small local tourism hosts of the countryside has been carried out (host farmer, holidays in farms, municipal campings, small hotels,...) and highlighted that some websites’ characteristics have particular impacts on the internauts. These experimental evaluation have been carried out in order to see which characteristics influenced the evaluations made by internauts. The aim of the project is to carry on these works on the evaluation of the influences so that the impact on the behavior of the internauts can be appreciated and theoretically explained and so that assistance for the conception of websites can be offered to the professionals of these industries.
