SPETA: Social pervasive e-Tourism advisor

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...

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...

Tourism Geographies, Tourist Studies and the Turn towards Mobilities

Tourism is frequently acclaimed as one of the world’s largest and most pervasive industries. Research into tourism has grown rapidly in recent years with many new books and journals appearing. In particular, this article notes that perhaps three new journals have marked the coming of age of tourism-related research, namely, Tourism Geographies, Tourist Studies and finally Mobilities. While a gr...

Where's everybody? Comparing the use of heatmaps to uncover cities' tacit social context in smartphones and pervasive displays

We introduce HotCity, a city-wide social context crowdsourcing platform that utilises user’s current location and geo-tagged social data (e.g., check-ins, ‘‘likes’’ and ratings) to autonomously obtain insight on a city’s tacit social awareness (e.g., ‘‘when is best time and where to go out on a Saturday night?’’). HotCity is available as a mobile application for Android and as an interactive ap...

The Attitude of Tehranian Customers toward Tourism Electronic Services