SPETA: Social pervasive e-Tourism advisor

SPETA: Social pervasive e-Tourism advisor

Using SPETA II as a Knowledge Management Platform for DMOs and e-Tourism Service Providers

The Internet has disrupted traditional tourism in which a promising landscape of intelligent service provision has erupted by applying a new lattice of cutting-edge technologies. Thus, the different actors of the tourist services are in a new environment and they should operate in a coordinated manner to increase the value of tourism, to keep current tourists and attract new ones. One of the ma...

Intelligent Decision-Support Systems for e-Tourism: Using SPETA II as a Knowledge Management Platform for DMOs and e-Tourism Service Providers

The Internet has disrupted traditional tourism in which a promising landscape of intelligent service provision has erupted by applying a new lattice of cutting-edge technologies. Thus, the different actors of the tourist services are in a new environment and they should operate in a coordinated manner to increase the value of tourism, to keep current tourists and attract new ones. One of the ma...

Let’s Get Social in e-Tourism: The “itchy feet” Way

In this paper we outline an e-Tourism environment that takes a community-driven approach to foster a lively society of travellers who exchange travel experiences, recommend tourism destinations or just listen to catch some interesting gossip. Business transactions such as booking a trip or getting assistance from travel advisors or community members are constituent parts of this environment. Al...

Social Tourism Using Photos

Mobile phones are frequently used to determine one's location and navigation directions, and they can also provide a platform for connecting tourists with each other. This paper proposes a system that uses a set of geotagged photos to automatically compute the geographic location of another photo and then augment that photo with text and images that enable collaboration and enhance navigation. ...