Tourism Information System- Integration and Information Retrieval of Tourism Information Systems using Semantic Web Services

Tourism Information Systems Integration and Utilization within the Semantic Web

Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Tourism Information Systems

The Semantic Web as the next generation web is the vision of having background knowledge about the meaning of web sources stored in a machine-processable and –interpretable way. The area of tourism is highly dynamic area that currently already extensively uses the available Internet technologies. However, the shortcomings of the existing technology are that information finding and extraction as...

Web-based Information for Medical Tourism: Case Study of AriaMedTour Medical Tourism Company, Iran

Objective: As one of the well-known countries for medical tourism, Iran has the potential for growth in this industry and requires information and advertisements in online media and websites. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the content produced by the website of AriaMedTour Medical Tourism Company in informing tourists. Methods: This is an applied study that adopted an indu...

Improving Tourism Information Search and Retrieval

The research described in this paper tries to bridge the existing gap between the tourism domain and user queries support in travel planning. The search engine proposed is based on a semantic model which allows defining a query language that is flexible and robust to changes in the tourism data model. This is critical as new tourism products, services and experiences are constantly emerging and...

Integration Between Hypermedia Information Retrieval System and Information Retrieval Systems

In hypermedia systems, links are used to connect related information in different types of media, for example: text, images, sound, etc. In this way, authors and users have means of accessing the information in a non-sequential manner, in the way they prefer, by following links that may be visualised as highlighted text or by other means. However, when simply following links while seeking infor...