In this paper, we propose an experiential approach to tourist segmentation aimed at overcoming the limits of both socio-demographic and context-specific approaches widely adopted in the literature and in practice. In this study, segmentation is carried out based upon the expected experiences of Chinese tourists at the Shanghai World Exposition. The segmentation reveals four tourist clusters wit...

The emergence of mobile computing has created new classes of applications dependent upon the user’s location, context and interaction with their current environment. However, given the constraints of the wireless environment (i.e. weak connection, poor network quality of service and mobile devices with limited resources) developing distributed applications within this domain is a complex task. ...

A 128-bp insertion into the maize waxy-B2 allele led to the discovery of Tourist, a family of miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs). As a special category of nonautonomous elements, MITEs are distinguished by their high copy number, small size, and close association with plant genes. In maize, some Tourist elements (named Tourist-Zm) are present as adjacent or nested insertion...

In this paper, we present a smart tourism system that plans a tourist agenda and keeps track of the plan execution. A Recommendation System returns the list of places that best fit the individual tastes of the tourist and a planner creates a personalized agenda or plan with indication of times and durations of visits. The key component of the system is the simulator in charge of the plan monito...

This paper focuses on tourism-related opinion mining, including tourism-related opinion detection and tourist-attraction target identification. The experimental data are blog articles labeled as being in the domestic tourism category in a blogspace. Annotators were asked to annotate the opinion polarity and the opinion target for every sentence. Different strategies and features have been propo...

This paper, based on the gravity model of tourism demand, studies the factors to the travel to the neighbor areas with the example of Hong Kong tourists to Macau, analyzing the drawing forces such as promotion activities of Macau’s Special Administrative Region government and the tourism industry, consumptions in Macau, especial events, and Macau’s tourism destination attractiveness, and the pu...

Parking is a key component of urban transportation managements and has become a severe problem at many tourist attractions during holidays in China. This paper presents a novel scheme to relieve the holiday parking pressure. Based on the perspectives of the activity-based travel characteristics, we propose an effort to develop parking alternatives by utilizing existing traffic facilities. A con...

This study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption. By reviewing available studies in the hospitality and tourism literature and synthesising insights from food consumption and sociological research, five socio-cultural and psychological factors influencing tourist food consumption are identified: cultural/religious influences, socio-demographic factors, food...

On New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest aircraft, a Qantas Airbus A380 will set off for a 9,000 kilometre round trip over the Antarctic for tourists to enjoy the spectacular scenery. These tourists will leave a very large carbon footprint, even without landing on the continent, but there is additional, increasing concern about the growing pressure from cruise ships and other tourists wish...

A hypermedia model is presented for the management of extendible multimedia information envisaged for tourist applications. The information is modelled according to the object-oriented methodology and organised into aggregation and specialisation / generalisation hierarchies, containing data that can be further enriched by authorised users typically travel agents. The end-user conceives a hyper...