Introduction

“The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.”
— Mark Zuckerberg

Not only Mark Zuckerberg thinks the web is getting more and more important and will in future flow together with the real life even more, most of the businesses have realized that it is time to jump on the online bandwagon and adjust to the ongoing development. We, 13 tourism students from the HTW Chur, also realized the paramount importance of the www and thus decided to take the Major E-commerce & Sales.
In the next months we will keep you updated about our learnings and will post in the blog every week about the lessons we had.

We are very excited to delve into the topic of E-Commerce!


Julia & Martina

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