Current information available to the tourists visiting Hong Kong seems to be abundant and fragmented. Usually, individual tourists tend to plan their itinerary well ahead they arrive, either through tourist guide or online information sources (e.g. existing itinerary planning websites). With the enhancement of information technology, it is expected that online itinerary planning would be a comp...

The study of the governance of tourist destinations – understood as the management of the offering system – presupposes the delimitation of the boundaries of tourist systems. The spatial identification of such systems becomes even more necessary when they are the object of normative recognition and incentive policies. In Italy, the Law 135/2001 for tourism reform provides for public financing o...

To guarantee sustainable international tourism market growth, challenges for international tourism advertisements (ITAs) include how and by whom they are made. Different to traditional ITAs, a new type of ITA has been created by the international tourists themselves; it contains not only pictures but also their own tour stories, and it is distributed via social media (e.g., Youtube.com). Howeve...

When tourists visit a city or region, they cannot visit every point of interest available, as they are constrained in time and budget. Tourist recommender applications help tourists by presenting a personal selection. Providing adequate tour scheduling support for these kinds of applications is a daunting task for the application developer. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how exis...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMCDM) model for international tourist hotel location selection. In this article we created 21 criteria for selecting the international tourist hotel location acquired from literatures review and practical investigations. And the methods of fuzzy set theory, linguistic value, hierarchical structure analysis, an...

An Ambient Intelligent environment is aware of the presence of a person, perceives her needs and responds intelligently. Ambient intelligence can be used to guide a tourist through the city in such a way that is mutually beneficial for both the tourist and the city. The composite set of services delivered to a tourist can be personalized. This adaptive behaviour is best supported by Virtual Ent...

In the field of tourism, the development of tourist attractions is gradually playing a crucial role in tourism economy, regional economy and national economy. While tourism economy is stimulated by growing demand, tourist attractions have been facing the situation that ecological environment is becoming fragile and environmental protection is increasingly difficult in China. As low-carbon econo...

This study examined the relationship between satisfaction and behavioral intention as they relate to tourist attractions in Taiwan. Structural equation modeling was conducted using data from 376 industrial tourists. The findings reveal that the only the effects of tourist attraction, but also satisfaction, on behavioral intention, are supported. Furthermore, economic factors play a moderating r...

In this paper, we present PSiS (Personalized Sightseeing Tours Recommendation System) Mobile. PSiS Mobile is our proposal to a mobile recommendation and planning support system, which is designed to provide effective support during the tourist visit with context-aware information and recommendations about places of interest (POI), exploiting tourist preferences and context.