In the present age of globalization, technology-revolution and sustainable development, the presence of seasonality in tourist arrivals is considered as a key policy issue that affects the global tourism industry by creating instability in the demand and revenues. The seasonal component in a time-series distorts the prediction attempts for policy-making. In this context, it is quintessential to...

This paper examines the literature on understanding and measuring consumer motivation and the application of these theories and procedures to understanding and researching tourist motivation. The application of consumer motivation theory to tourism is considered especially relevant, because motivation is considered a critical variable in the tourist decision-making process. When understanding a...

Buleleng Regency has many unique cultures and beauty of natural sceneries which are always the charm and attraction for tourists. It requires the effort to increase the number of visits of the tourists by providing the information of tour object in accordance with the tourists’ interest and also easily for accessible. This study aimed at designing a mobile-based CBR system using Dempster-Shafer...

The study of tourist activities and the mapping of their routes in space and time has become an important issue in tourism management. Here we represent space-time paths for the tourism industry by visualizing individual tourist activities and the paths followed using a 3D Geographic Information System (GIS). Considerable attention has been devoted to the measurement of accessibility to shoppin...

Selecting tourist attractions to visit at a destination is a main stage in planning a trip. Although various online travel recommendation systems have been developed to support users in the task of travel planning during the last decade, few systems focus on recommending specific tourist attractions. In this paper, an intelligent system to provide personalized recommendations of tourist attract...

This paper describes the context-aware mobile tourist application COMPASS that adapts its services to the user’s needs based on both the user’s interests and his current context. In order to provide context-aware recommendations, a recommender system has been integrated with a contextaware application platform. We describe how this integration has been accomplished and how users feel about such...

During June 2-8, 2009, an outbreak of influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 occurred among 31 members of a tour group in China. To identify the mode of transmission and risk factors, we conducted a retrospective cohort investigation. The index case-patient was a female tourist from the United States. Secondary cases developed in 9 (30%) tour group members who had talked with the index case-patient a...

This paper discusses the provision of ubiquitous services for desktop and handheld interfaces. The focus of the paper is on the interactive agenda offered by INTRIGUE, a tourist information server which assists the user in the organization of a tour by providing personalized recommendations of tourist attractions and helping the user to schedule her itinerary. The interactive agenda can be acce...