Every town reports differently
Dates arrive by email, as flyers, from town newsletters and club websites. By the time they're in the board's calendar, something has often changed.
Typing instead of advising
The team enters by hand what clubs and towns send in or put on their sites.
Three times for one festival
The town calendar, the board's website and a hotel's site show the same event at different times.
Changes arrive late
When a guided tour is cancelled, the tourist office often hears of it only when guests are waiting at the meeting point.
Guests from abroad
The calendar is usually in German and English. Guests from France, Spain or China read little of it.
A weekend in the Vinschgau
A village festival in Glurns moves from Saturday to Sunday because of a storm. The club posts it on its website. The tourist office and the board's site still say Saturday, and guests drive there for nothing.
CIXTRA reads the change on the club's site and updates the date in the board's calendar, on the info screens and at the businesses that have the calendar embedded. The tourist office sees the new date before the first guest asks.
What CIXTRA delivers to your board
Everything comes from the same checked source. You choose your towns, topics and channels.
When a festival moves
CIXTRA keeps reading the sites and calendars of the municipalities, clubs and venues in your region and notices when something changes.
Friday, 17:05 A village festival moves.
Glurns village festival, Saturday, 11:00
SaturdaySunday, because of a storm
Matched with the town calendar entry, no duplicate.
Festival moved to Sunday
updatedWeekend re-sorted
updatedNew date taken over
updatedNote changed
flagged for reviewTypical uses
Tourism board
A tourism board brings together the calendars of all its towns and shows them on its website, on the info screens and at local businesses.
Tourist office
A tourist office answers questions at the desk and on the phone from the same current information as the website.
Day-trip region
A day-trip region puts together weekend tips every week for visitors from the surrounding cities.
Three steps to your region's calendar
- 01
Call
We go through your towns, your sources and the channels you want to start with.
- 02
First calendar
We read in what's on in your towns and show you the calendar with your own data.
- 03
Expand
Then info screens, local businesses and weekend tips follow, step by step.
What tourism boards ask us
Where does the data come from?
From the websites and calendars of municipalities, clubs and venues. You can also enter things yourself or send a file.
Do the clubs have to do anything?
No. They keep their dates where they keep them today. CIXTRA reads them there.
What happens with cancellations?
Sources are read again and again. A cancellation or change of date is detected and corrected everywhere the date is shown.
In which languages?
In ten languages, including English, French, Italian, Chinese and Arabic.
Can we keep our own texts?
Yes. You can keep your own texts and images without changing the shared entry.
Do local businesses get the same calendar?
Yes. Hotels and holiday rentals can put your region's calendar on their website or their lobby screen. When a date changes, it changes there too.
See your region's calendar.
Tell us your towns. We'll show you what CIXTRA already knows there today.