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Tourism is closely connected with mobile activities. People go the tourism attractions by doing mobile within city or even country. As a tourist, mobility means put some risk for the convenience of sightseeing. For example, when the visitor visits the attractions might feel uncomfortable because crowd of people, closed attractions, or meaningless unguided tour. This paper describes an alternative...
Under the global trend of low-carbon economy, the sustainable development of tourism is very important for the adjustment of economic structure, regional economic development promotion, and improvement of city taste, community environment and conditions of public service facilities. More and more leisure cities take their own tourism products as leader, which is becoming the comprehensive industry...
Tourism is an important industry for many nations including Malaysia. A tourism forecasting model is necessary in order to optimize resource allocation to maximize facilities and services to tourists. In realization of this issue, this paper proposes a comparison between two models (Nonlinear Auto-Regressive (NAR) and Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Moving Average (NARMA)) to forecast Malaysian tourism...
With the development of economy and the accelerating rhythm of life, pressure of work and competition is becoming bigger and bigger. Traveling outside is an effective way to relax and plays a more and more important role in people's lives. Tourism service supply chain is built to meet the needs of tourists. The supply chain structure includes food, accommodation, travel, tour, shopping, entertainment...
Malaysia is a multicultural country and is known for its tourism industry. The uniqueness of Malaysian traditional games is one of the cultural aspects to promote tourism industry in Malaysia. This paper presents a mobile application that combines the use of printed media and marker-based augmented reality (AR) technology as an effective and engaging platform in promoting Malaysian traditional games...
Tourism is one of the most significant industries all across the globe. Information technology plays an indispensable role in promoting the industry. We utilized a web crawler to obtain online tourists' demographics and comments. This study adopts a new perspective in analyzing tourists' profiles where both quantitative (data mining) and qualitative analysis methods were performed on the data collected...
Since climate in Changbai Mountain changes frequently and topography is complex, visitors can't enjoy the real Changbai Mountain charm sometimes. AR technology can be used to let the visitors not only enjoy the graceful of Changbai Mountain, but also understand the whole historical formation process. Compared with simple rehabilitation, this way helps visitors to understand the process of terrain...
The relationship between tourism and wellbeing is becoming one of the focus issues in current tourism study. It is significant in theoretical and practical fields. Through analyzing the existing researches, the paper found out existing studies focus on the different impacts of tourism activities on happiness, but there are many inconsistent conclusions in existing studies. Some studies focused on...
In an era of economic crisis and serious environmental constraints, the transition to sustainability enters dynamically the debate over long-term preservation and welfare at a systemic level. Tourism is a resource- (capital, human and natural) demanding sector; this paper explores the variety and diversity of methodological approaches and tools employed in the evaluation of tourism, and their potential...
In this paper, we propose a recommendation system for the adaptive delivery of nutrition contents both to healthy and chronically ill tourists in order to improve their quality of life by combining the needs of leisure with health benefits. The proposed system provides individualized nutritional recommendation according to the health user profile. The profile is created through the supply of dynamic...
Service brokering has an increasingly prominent role in bridging the gap between business requirement and technology enablement. We propose the concept of service value brokering (SVB) to fulfil the possible missing linkages between business and technology layer. In this paper, we modeled a SVB Web service as an integration of two layers with the business interface (BIF) and the technical interface...
This paper mainly aims at bringing an overview and executing the importance analysis of leisure-related Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals. Using the Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) statistical analysis method, three parameters of "Tourism", "Leisure" and "Hospitality" are selected as being significantly important for leisure-related SSCI journals...
The paper presents how the TIC has been employed in the redraw process of the cartographic documents in the research project I+D+i "Strategies for Sustainable Regeneration of Tourism Settlements on the Mediterranean coast " carried out by members of the IAM of the School of Architecture La Salle URL. This project aims to establish urban and architectural guidelines for a sustainable regeneration...
M-Commerce is expected to play an even larger role, with over half a billion customers following the trend to shop via mobile devices by 2016. According to the Malaysian Ministry of Tourism and Culture, tourism has been identified as one of the twelve National Key Economic Area to drive the country's growth. This gave rise to this research objective which is to determine the attention ranking of Malaysians...
The tourist industry needs an extensive information support to promote their activities. There are many existing information resources that have two main characteristics: focus on local initiatives and are very heterogeneous (using different data models, frequency of update etc). On the other hand users have their own requirements. They want to find interesting, attractive and credible information...
Currently, as many disciplines begin to cultivate a set of core methodologies, system of systems engineering (SoSE), which has its root in context of military programming, becomes a significant research focus and provides a new perspective to solve the emerging "system of systems" challenges in industrial analysis. Meanwhile, modern communication and information technologies have provided...
In recent years, with continuous tense situation in the South China Sea, the South China Sea issue presents the international and multilateral trend. The South China Sea issue intensified not only for China - ASEAN economic development impact, but also a direct threat to the security of the South China Sea, as the territorial or strategic resources security, and the South China Sea International Channel...
It highlights the usefulness of the joint systematic teaching methodologies for the design and assessment of educational Learning Objects (LOs) in technology-mediated learning environments. Different reviewed studies report satisfactory results in learning by using LOs that match in the use of teaching methods for their construction. The case of the subject of Archeology of the Bachelors in Tourism...
YATIRI is the Tourist Information Platform of region Puno for mobile devices, which provides timely and updated information about the tourist attractions of the region Puno, for local and foreign tourists who visit this tourism destiny. This information is shown on mobile devices (mobile phone, smartphone, Tablets, PDAs, etc.), instead of the classical manuals and printed paper tourism guides (Handbooks)...
"The Loire Valley from the train window" is a new kind of travel guide on smartphones for users of a railway line between Orléans and Nantes. This part of the Loire valley is a living cultural landscape. This application is a tool for interpreting all kind of heritage that can be observed.
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