Tourism Informatics: Towards Novel Knowledge Based Approaches

✍ Scribed by Tokuro Matsuo, Kiyota Hashimoto, Hidekazu Iwamoto (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library 90
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces new trends of theory and practice of information technologies in tourism. The book does not handle only the fundamental contribution, but also discusses innovative and emerging technologies to promote and develop new generation tourism informatics theory and their applications. Some chapters are concerned with data analysis, web technologies, social media and their case studies. Travel information on the web provided by travelers is very useful for other travelers make their travel plan. A chapter in this book proposes a method for interactive retrieval of information on accommodation facilities to support travelling customers in their travel preparations. Also an adaptive user interface for personalized transportation guidance system is proposed. Another chapter in this book shows a novel support system for the collaborative tourism planning by using the case reports that are collected via Internet. Also, a system for recommending hotels for the users is proposed and evaluated. Other chapters are concerned with recommendation, personalization and other emerging technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Topic Analysis of Case Reports in Tourism Towards Collaborative Tourism Planning Support....Pages 1-14
Mapping Geotagged Tweets to Tourist Spots Considering Activity Region of Spot....Pages 15-30
Discovery of Implicit Feature Words of Place Name....Pages 31-42
Extraction of Tourism Objects from Blogs....Pages 43-58
An Innovative Regional Tourism Study by Microfilms....Pages 59-76
On-Site Likelihood Identification of Tweets Using a Two-Stage Method....Pages 77-90
Recommending Hotels by Social Conditions of Locations....Pages 91-106
A System for Recommendation of Accommodation Facilities Adaptable to User Interest....Pages 107-118
Adaptive User Interface for Personalized Transportation Guidance System....Pages 119-134
The Effectiveness of Time Sequence Information on a Sightseeing Spot Recommender....Pages 135-150
Suspect Vehicle Detection Using Vehicle Reputation with Association Analysis Concept....Pages 151-164

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)