Multimedia provides communications using text, graphics, animation, and video.
The combination of several media often results in a powerful and richer presentation of information and ideas to stimulate interest and enhance information retention. GIS is a powerful set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving, transforming, managing, analyzing, and displaying spatial data. The integration of those technologies will improve the services offered to the tourism market. This paper presents the importance of Multimedia and GIS technologies in the tourism industry and their use to build a powerful distributed tourism information system. One of the problems encountered in the tourism industry is the quick update and maintenance of the data.