A scientific method of selection
Web2rism, the scientific tool trough which the Best Online Reputation Hotels and Online Luxury Destinations have been selected and evaluated, is a business intelligence software for the tourism industry which examines the online reputation of a hotel based on User Generated Contents (UGC), content entered by users on various websites and Web 2.0 services, such as blogs, wikis, or social network.
Web2rism, whose name derives from a contraction of Web 2.0 and tourism, was designed and developed by researchers at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano and financially supported by the Agency for Innovation KTI of the Helvetic Confederation.
The development team of Web2rism has been coordinated by prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, dean of the University of italian Switzerland. Professor. Cantoni is Vice-director of the Institute of Communication and Education (ICIeF) and scientific director of the laboratories NewMinE: New Media in Education, webatelier.net and eLab: eLearning Lab.