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Compared with the four records of Northern Yang-zhou suburb, the research discovers that trips to scenic spots were transformed. Journeys based upon landmark buildings, such as Ping-shan-tang, were gradually replaced by those based upon site-seeing boats, and the latter were increasingly popular. Above findings indicate that in the 18th century, the representation, experience and perceptions of the...
Tourism industry is expected to grow tremendously in Malaysia. Mobile technology such as smart phones can be use as a tourist recommender system. This paper proposed a collaborative awareness framework in order to design a usable mobile system. The collaborative awareness framework takes into account of tourist types, tourism activities, tourist experiences, visiting phases, mobile technology capabilities...
Today more than 80% of the Iran's revenue comes from the oil exported to the other countries in the world. It's quite apparent that oil is considered as a source that one day will be gone. Oil is unable to bring a bright future as a foundation of the economy. The purpose of this study is to bring in light the current situation of Iran from the exceptional tourism opportunities point of view, and the...
China is a late starter in tourism. The government adopted “open door policy” in the late 1970s and began welcoming international visitors. The world has witnessed a boom in tourism in China over the ensuing three decades. Along with the increase of visitors, the Chinese hotel industry developed with high speed to meet these demands. The Chinese hotel industry developed fast. However, from 1994 to...
Sentiment mining aims at extracting features on which users express their opinions in order to determine the user's sentiment towards the query object. We mine over 70 million Twitter microblogs to gain knowledge regarding tourist sentiment on the travel resort destination Cancun in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. We measure sentiment using a binary choice keyword algorithm and a multi-knowledge...
At present, the tourism change information management cannot be resolved efficiently and effectively, and this may cause tourists' travel to be out of order, leaving behind much pressure to transportation, scenic spots, hotels facilities and so forth. The main reason for this is lacking adaptive handling mechanism for this situation. This paper describes the mechanism of tourism information Change...
Tourism sciences represent a very active research field in Computer Science today. In particular, in the realm of ubiquitous computing. The evolution of mobile devices and their proliferation in society, the advancement of communication technologies and the trend toward creating hybrid spaces (symbiosis between nature and technology) will trigger a radical change in the way persons involved in mobility,...
Following the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assertion that climate change is now unequivocally taking place, the Davos Declaration has prioritized the need for the tourism sector to respond to the climate change challenge. There is a need to reduce emissions through carbon management strategy of tourism in response to avoid dangerous climate change. Climate change impacts require...
An analytical way to reach the best decision is more preferable in many business platforms. In this study, Analytic Hierarchy Process has been applied for evaluating the impact factors of foreign exchange income by tourism market in Henan province. Moreover, the score methodology by specialists and MATLAB software are also used for getting the impact factors' weight scores. The results show that the...
eTransformation, the ability to select and implement appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on company's goals, objectives and operations is essential for the businesses today. This paper identifies how an online system - eTranformation Guide (eT Guide) allows companies especially Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to track, measure and guide their eTransformation journey...
One of the essential strategies to develop the Geotourism investments is recognizing the areas are suitable for the ecotourism and planning to discover the Geotourism investments of these areas. Nowadays, considering environmental elements it is significant to investigate and analyze the aforementioned investments and potentialities scientifically. Geotourism, the tourism of the appearance of the...
Climate change is one of the major environmental issues facing the world today. The ongoing global warming has had and will continue to have serious impact on natural environment. The impact of climate change on the natural environment is manifested in changes in geography, landscape and ecosystems. Tourism is one of the sectors causing global climate change. This is an undisputed fact and policy...
In this paper we mine over 80 million twitter micro logs in order to explore whether data from this social media initiative can be used to identify sentiment about tourism and Thailand amid the unrest in that country during the early part of 2010 and further whether analysis of tweets can be used to discern the effect of that unrest on Phuket's tourism environment. It is proposed that this analysis...
Information retrieval is the most popular database technology, which is focusing on data analysis, association rules, pattern discovery and so on. It is critical to find efficient ways of mining large data sets. In this paper we present a Personalized Travel Information System, called PTIS. PTIS can automatically link to the travel sites to collect information, and then create new data rules. According...
In order to evaluate the coordinated development of a system, a method named Synchronous Coordination Judgment (SCJ) is designed, which involves such five procedures as following. Firstly, a system is divided into several subsystems and a number of elements are chosen. Then, based on some criteria these elements are divided into three ranks. Secondly, in each subsystem the number of the elements in...
In China, many historic and cultural blocks in ancient capitals fend for themselves.The Messy architectural forms, the fuzzy property rights make it very difficult to take comprehensive environmental management. How to deal with the relationship between history and future, human and nature, are important issues to resolve. The text takes Shichahai area in Xicheng District of Beijing as an example...
This paper presents a successful attempt at evolving web intelligence in the tourism scenario, namely throughout two main areas: User Modeling and Recommender Systems. The first subject deals with the correct modeling of tourists' profiles using a wide variety of techniques, such as stereotypes, keywords and psychological models. These techniques, besides presenting user interests with great coherence...
It is apparent that in an economic crisis every industry may face number of difficulties and the question is how to tackle with the resulting problems in order to safeguard the sustainable development of the industry. In Malaysia as one of the south-east Asian countries, tourism industry emerges as one of the major sources of revenues generating business for the government. In view of the fact that...
Applying Geographical Information System (GIS) in tourism system is nothing out of the ordinary. Years of research and effort to implement GIS been executed and it can be conclude that GIS provides promising approach to a successful tourism GIS system. The traditional tourism, tourist and tour-agent relationship now changed into dynamic means where the tour-agent able to guide the tourist although...
Zu Shan virgin forest park, one of the most valuable virgin forest park in China, possesses a particular natural resource. It has not only granitic geomorphy, but also is a rare virgin forest park in the north of our country. It causes more and more attention of tourists now. Natural resources and the humanities environment should be fully utilized in its exploitation, for maintaining long-term stability...
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