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How to apply UNE 178502 and 178503 in your smart destination

A practical, easy-to-follow guide to help destinations make their tourism data interoperable, comparable and ready for the new European data ecosystem — with the support of iris360.

Key Takeaways

This whitepaper turns two key UNE standards into something practical and usable for day-to-day destination management. It explains, in simple terms, how to work with UNE 178502 (indicators) and UNE 178503 (semantic representation), and how iris360 helps put them into practice.

You’ll learn:

  • How to define and structure indicators following UNE 178502
  • How to express them semantically in JSON or JSON-LD using UNE 178503
  • Why semantic data matters and how it enables true interoperability
  • Practical examples such as “average stay” or “innovation resources”
  • How iris360 turns your indicators into dashboards, APIs and reusable datasets
  • What NEM is, and why metadata matters when geospatial information is involved
  • How all of this prepares destinations for initiatives like SEGITTUR’s PID and data spaces such as GeoSpaceData and LDT-DS

Who this whitepaper is for

This guide is designed for:

Smart tourism destination managers

Data and innovation
teams

Public-sector organisations working in tourism

Integrators, consultants and technology partners

Tourism Data Analysts

What's included

An overview of the UNE framework and where 178502 / 178503 fit.

A step-by-step explanation of how to define and semantize indicators.

Examples in JSON and JSON-LD.

A simple view of how iris360 implements these standards.

The connection with SEGITTUR PID and data spaces.

A short introduction to NEM and geospatial metadata.

The value of using iris360

iris360 makes it easier to apply the UNE standards by offering:
Automated ingestion of different data sources
A semantic layer that converts indicators into JSON-LD
Dashboards aligned with the UNE model
Open APIs already prepared for NGSI-LD
Connectors to data spaces like GeoSpaceData and LDT-DS

What used to be a static Excel becomes part of a living, interoperable data ecosystem.

How to apply UNE 178502 and 178503 in your Smart Destination

Learn the step-by-step process to define, give semantic meaning, and visualize comparable UNE indicators using iris360 platform.

Data is the engine of the future, and we understand its power