It’s been said that since the appearing of collaborative technologies in the Internet, the so called “Web 2.0″ has made its may through. The potential of the Internet, according to this conceptualization, is not the ability to distribute contents in an economic way, but to provide users a collaborative platform of knowledge construction. Thus, the way of enjoying and obtaining muisc -with users building files exchange networks- is changing, as well as the way journalism is being made, from the irruption of the so called “citizen journalism”.

Is something similar going on within the travels area? Is the Internet modifying the way to do business in the tourism market? Can we talk about Travel 2.0?

Let’s take a look at some of the changes brought by the arrival of the Internet to the tourism field:

To be able to talk about “Travel 2.0″, that is to place a label on it, we’d have to find a collaborative dimension among the different actors. Except for the integration of the airlines supply chain -something that many companies from other sectors, from informatics to food related, have done- I don’t see many collaborative uses related to the travel field. There are some very specific examples, such as Wikitravel or sites destined to share information -which, we have to admit, is a limited form of collaboration. Is there some way in which the Internet can change the tourism business, in the same way it’s doing it with journalism or the delegation of tasks to third parties many companies are doing? As long as this doesn’t occur, we’ll hardly be able to talk about a 2.0 era in the travel market.