We develop an easy to use demand estimation strategy for multi-site trips within a stated preference framework. With this model, we evaluate: 1) changes in the marginal value of onsite time, 2) changes in the marginal value of total time in the tour package, 3) changes in both the number and types of sites on consumer surplus, 4) changes in the variable costs of onsite time on the elasticity of...

Online museums could benefit from digital "lifelike" characters in order to guide users to virtual tours and to customize the tour information to users' interests. Digital characters have been explored in online museum web sites with different degrees of interaction and modes of communication. Such research, however, does not explore interactive "conversational" characters. The main interest of...

We propose a learning algorithm for solving the traveling salesman problem based on a simple strategy of trial and adaptation: i) A tour is selected by choosing cities probabilistically according to the “synaptic” strengths between cities. ii) The “synaptic” strengths of the links that form the tour are then enhanced (reduced) if the tour length is shorter (longer) than the average result of th...

For a given set A C_ (-Tr; +Tr] of angles, the problem "Angle-Restricted Tour" (ART) is to decide whether a set P of n points in the Euclidean plane allows a closed directed tour consisting of straight line segments, such that all angles between consecutive line segments are from the set A. We present a variety of algorithmic and combinatorial results on this problem. In particular, we show tha...

Computational experiments show that the greedy algorithm (GR) and the nearest neighbor algorithm (NN), popular choices for tour construction heuristics, work at acceptable level for the Euclidean TSP, but produce very poor results for the general Symmetric and Asymmetric TSP (STSP and ATSP). We prove that for every n ≥ 2 there is an instance of ATSP (STSP) on n vertices for which GR finds the w...

This study aims to identify the response of tourists in Jatimulyo Tourism Village towards plan developing birdwatching tourism. Birds have a strong attractiveness for certain groups people, such as bird hobbies due their diverse characteristics which high selling value. is one tourism villages known its diversity. Regarding that situation, government issued Regulation (so-called Peraturan Desa ...

The introduction of a Central Reservation System (CRS) for Jersey was a key objective of the Island's government, a need whlch was strongly supported by the tourism industry. The aims of the Jersey Central Reservations System are to provide an easy, quick and cost-effective way for the off-island trade and consumer to book hotel by Emma Pallot Jersey Tourism and guest house accommodation in Jer...

Security and protection demands in tourism industry are very high due to the vulnerability of its infrastructure in light of security challenges and threats. Actual threats appear in the form of endangering the values that compose a train of products and services in tourism – from the moment of buying/selling a package tour, transfer of passengers and luggage to their destination, to stay in ho...

In this paper we present a system to include knowledge in the process of organizing and disseminating heritage using 360 panoramic images. With our solution, data in heterogeneous digital archives are integrated according to a semantic model and are enriched by the contribution of domain experts which specify stories, called narrations, reflecting their knowledge of the heritage. Data in digita...