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The paper proposes a description of information decision support system in the tourism domain and a set of methods and algorithms for generating recommendations for a user that allow significant increase of the system usability. The system generates for the user recommendations which attractions at the moment are better to attend based on the user preferences and the current situation in the location...
Most of the existing recommender systems for tourism apply knowledge-based and content-based approaches, which need sufficient historical rating information or extra knowledge and suffer from the cold start problem. In this paper, a demographic recommender system is utilized for the recommendation of attractions. This system categorizes the tourists using their demographic information and then makes...
In this paper, we present a Geographical Information Retrieval system, which aims to automatically extract and analyze touristic information from photos of online image collections (in our case of study Flickr). Our system collect all the photos, and the related information, that are associated to a specific city. We then use Google Maps service to geolocate the retrieved photos, and finally we analyze...
Leisure agriculture has dual features of agriculture and tourism, and its basic features include the marketability, science & technology, spectator, experience, culture, education, ecology etc. Leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration sites are typical cases who selected out by the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Tourism Administration, and they are demonstrate significance...
With the explosion of smartphone popularity in recent years, people are familiar with mobile tourism guides. Users often spend much time to look for travel information on the Internet without user interaction on relevant websites. Generally, the tour guides lead tourists to interact with travel attractions in a group trip. This study applies an interactive model to traveling while tourists join a...
In the last few decades, Information Communication Technologies has affected how business being performed and give a new exciting experience. The tourism industry is also affected by ICT development. Tourism industry is expected to be grow in importance. Tourism industry need to be supported by detailed and up to date information about tourism product to help consumer make decision. In this paper...
The negotiation partners and contents between tourism service companies are changed relatively small and are easy to transform into rules and cases. Owing to these features, a new automated negotiation model integrating RBR and CBR technologies is proposed in this paper to improve the negotiation efficiency and success rate. For negotiations which have contract rules stored in rule base, the model...
During the past thirty years after the Reform and Openness, the tourism industry developed rapidly. People spend more and more money on travelling. Based on the current literature, we choose the following variables as the key factors impacting our tourism foreign exchange income This article conducts the empirical analysis of the impact factors of China tourism foreign exchange income using the logarithm...
This article presents main objective of a series of measures that can be afforded by the public administration to develop a specific tourist area. With the proposed methodology based on theory of the forgotten effects seeks to uncover what kind of help will be more effective and provide greater impact on growth and development of the area in question. This is a study of efforts in the public and private...
“Tour” is an emotional word to lots of people. When a person decides to take a trip, one can be classified into two types of tourists, an active and passive tourist. An active tourist has to prepare everything for the satisfactory tour. On the contrary, a passive tourist who is generally inclined to use a guided group package tour prepares less something than an active tourist. Thus, much research...
This paper introduces new approaches to the educational and tourism domains of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the 16th century. Both spheres present considerable technology breakthroughs to be used in cultural heritage conservation and preservation, as well as to engage the population in cultural knowledge through serious games. The material presented in this paper concerns the transmission of cultural heritage...
Ishikawa Prefecture is located in the Hokuriku region in Japan. One of the problems of the tourism in Ishikawa is to increase the number of tourists from foreign countries. In order to solve this problem, it should be necessary to provide foreign tourists with “language service.” In this study, in order to understand a state of language service to foreign tourists, we investigated what linguistic...
Route planning algorithms attempt to find the optimum path between two nodes in a graph, where a cost function specifies a weight for each edge. In many situations cost is related to distance or time. While time estimates are rather straightforward for automotive applications, real-world route planning for hiking and other outdoor activities requires careful consideration of a variety of different...
Using a qualitative approach, this study examines e-commerce adoption in the Saudi tourism industry. The research concerns organisational factors for tourism firms to consider when moving their sales online. The competing values framework was used to classify the firms' organisational culture. The study's findings suggest a relationship between the organisation's culture and its ability to use electronic...
As tourism develops very fast, more and more researchers are doing some works about it. However, the pattern of e-tourism has not been given enough considerations. Especially, many patterns of it are emerging nowadays. In this paper, the traditional patterns of e-tourism are given first. Then it is discussed the present patterns. A pattern which is used in a travel agency ¨C Funnel Model is described...
Nowadays, information has become the third element of economic growth. In order to acquire fast development, tourism must be combined with information technology. Tourism information services, as the innovation of tourism and internet technology, have greatly changed with the development of internet technology. The new features of tourism in internet age can be described as virtual, interaction, difference...
Calculation of the conceptual semantic similarity is the key technology in information retrieval based on domain ontology. While, traditional semantic similarity calculation models only focus on certain influencing factor, which leads to poor convergence performances and lower accuracy. In this paper, a Semantic Distance based Relationship Path Semantic Similarity Calculation Model (SDRPCM) is proposed...
Tourism industry is important for the economic growth and development of any country. Aim of this study is to analyze the business travelers' attitude and their opinion with regard to the various services rendered by the tour operator. People working in corporate sectors have to travel often as part of their day-to-day work related activities. As intermediaries tour operators are playing a vital role...
Tourism is one of the world's most booming industries and the fourth largest industry in the global economy generating approximately $4 trillion annually worldwide. It is currently a complex and globalised phenomenon with demonstrated socio-economic importance. Many countries in Europe and Asia now completely depend on the income from tourism. Tourism in India is in such a position which is desirable...
This study summarizes success factors of virtual worlds (VWs) examined in scientific studies. One success factor attracting users is that VWs comprise a critical mass of residents. The most popular social VW Second Life (SL) struggles to reach this criterion. Nevertheless, businesses put time and money into virtual representations. This research aims at revealing reasons for this effort by conducting...
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