The initiative RIAT (Rede de Informação e Assistência Técnica, Network for Information and Technical Assistance) Digital Destination, launched within the framework of the national programme for economic modernisation PRIME, sub-programme Digital SMEs, permitted to assess the level of usage of the information technologies by SMEs in the tourism sector and to work out the action plans for computerisation and consistent adherence to the "Digital Economy". This project was finished in the end of 2005.