The term of context in mobile computing area especially in the spatio-temporal applications introduces a rich source of information, yet it has less been regarded and modelled in the related fields. Since a tourist may be considered as a moving object in an environment with variable contexts, therefore tourist guide applications and services is taken into account as an application area for the ...

This paper describes the design and development of an expert system for tourist information center. The expert system was built to recommend a suitable travel schedule that satisfies user input constraints such as time period, budget and preferences. Tourist center officers need to answer similar set of queries in their day-to-day work which could be replaced by an intelligent tourist advisor s...

The modern discipline of customer care is paying more and more attention on the centrality of customers in the modern business organization. It is even more true if we consider the tourist industry where the market globalization and the competition of the emerging Countries is getting more and more hard. Nowadays it is unimaginable to plan a new kind of touristic service/product not considering...

Characteristics of Istrian regional identity at the turn of the 21 century can be considered in the context of traditional food as a tourist offer of Istria. The main characteristics of Istrian traditional meals are simplicity and modesty as well as togetherness of the Roman, German and Slavic cuisine. The global trend of coming back to authenticity and health food are cleverly used by the tour...

Text Mining is essential for knowledge discovery from valuable texts available in many forms. These texts carry relevant information pertaining to the need of the user. In this paper we describe a tourist decision support system that mines data regarding tourist places in Orissa from Oriya text files, translates and preprocesses data and classifies the tourist places into three classes using C ...

Based on the level empowerment system and the linguistic operator, a satisfaction evaluation process is proposed in this paper. First of all, a level empowerment system is established to generate the weight of each surveyed tourist. Then, some new linguistic operations are defined which can remedy the defects of the existed operations. Besides, the expectation and variance in linguistic informa...

We estimate grid level tourist numbers to Arctic Circle countries under a number of climate change scenarios. At present, the highest tourism volumes are found in Canada and most of the Scandinavian countries. In general, it appears that tourists are attracted to regions with better infrastructure and nicer cities. Under each climate change scenario, Russia sees a significant increase in touris...

Tourism is the most important industry in the world in terms of the numbers of employees and its effect on the social and economical development of a region or country. Holjevac (2003) believes that, by the year 2050, tourism will by far be the largest industry worldwide, with 2 billion tourists and US$24 billion in domestic and international receipts. Moreover, the major tourist destinations w...

This study examines an Israeli lesbian woman's travel experience based on the analysis of her published diary. The comparison of her experience and attitudes towards various spaces (e.g. her apartment, open spaces near her home, and locations in which she is involved in tourist activity) suggests that her perception of the space as 'free from people she knows' allows her and her partner to bene...

This study investigates the advantages and the potentiality of the ‘tourist kit’, an Italian solution based on the concept of a prepaid card that is issued by a large postal operator. The destination card can be reloaded by tourists according to their needs and its validity is not restricted to short periods. Thus, the kit provides tourists with an integrated, practical, and flexible tool capab...