Ph. D. thesis in Computer Science written by Montse Cuadros under the supervision of Dr. Llúıs Padró and Dr. German Rigau. The thesis defense was done on 22th November 2011 at the Computer Science Faculty of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The Doctoral Examination Committee was composed by Dr. Horacio Rodŕıguez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Prof. Dr. Piek Vossen (Vrije Unive...

1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (FR), Italy; E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science (LA...

To those who help others. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Nick Feamster, for all his support, enthusiasm, and optimism, which have been an invaluable source of inspiration for me. Nick has been a great mentor, who has had an incredible impact on my path. Also, I would like to thank Prof. Roberto Perdisci, for all his support, boundless positive energy, and persistenc...

We are developing a recommender system for tourist spots. The challenge ismainly to characterize tourist spotswhose features change dynamicallywith trends, events, season, and time of day. Our method uses a one-class support vector machine (OC-SVM) to detect the regions of substantial activity near target spots on the basis of tweets and photographs that have been explicitly geotagged. A tweet ...

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...

• Recent empirical studies suggest that, in the best cases, between a fifth and one-third of total tourist turnover in the destination is captured by the ‘poor’. • Tourism can have important pro-poor impacts and these can be strengthened by deliberate public policy interventions. • Tourism can affect the poor via three, quite different pathways. But there is not a single destination where pover...

The purpose of this study is to develop an information system (AR recommended GIS) to support tourists’ excursion behavior by making the accumulating, sharing, and recommending of information concerning urban tourist spots possible. The conclusion of this study can be summarized into three points as shown below. (1) In order to support tourists’ excursion behaviors by integrating SNS, Twitter, ...

Infrastructure is highly imperative for tourism development of a tourism resource rich region, which requires plausible planning and management for the development of such infrastructure. In this article, an attempt was made to comprehend the tourism development of a region by considering the influence of three most essential infrastructures, such as, roads, railway and accommodation. For this ...

Seeking to shift the discussion of the concept of authenticity in tourism scholarship from the dominant concern with tourist experiences to the more sociological problem of the processes of authentication of tourist attractions, we conceptualize two analytically distinct, but practically often intersecting, modes of authentication of attractions, ‘‘cool’’ and ‘‘hot’’. Through a range of example...

The aims of the paper are two-fold, namely to analyse the seasonal patterns of tourist arrivals from South Korea to Australia, and to use econometric time series modelling to quantify the factors affecting the flow of international tourists between Australia and Korea. Estimates of the effects of changes in income, relative prices, exchange rates, seasonality and other factors are provided, and...