Abstract:
Considering the information society being a key element of the new millennium development, organizations which deal with the promotion of tourism and agricultural tourism should take into matter the power of the information technologies, such as computers, Internet, info-kiosks. By using the mentioned information technologies, any tourist could gather information about the tourist area which one intends to visit and also about the available means of accommodation. The info-kiosk IT system solution requires the existence of tourists electronic information modalities and has the objective to inform the tourist in order that he can find out useful information achieved by the medium of a data base. The solution info-kiosk comes to help the tourists through the medium of the creation of an IT infrastructure for access to public and private interest information which can be used for a great diversity of necessary informational service within the context of the informational society. Expert systems are intelligent technologies supporting humans in several activities that require making decisions after analyzing different acting ways. Expert systems solutions are very welcomed within the info-kiosk IT system supporting the gathering, processing and managing of information within the data base allowing users to access information and recommending some alternatives allowing the user to make a final decision. Expert systems are being used successfully in all fields and successfully replacing or supporting the human experts by eliminating subjectiveness. Still, it is very important for the expert system to be appropriately tested, verified and validated in order to avoid any failures. In the case of expert systems, verification, validation and testing should be made more carefully and minutely than in the case of usual information systems.