In this paper, we propose how a truly ubiquitous tourist guide could be ‘grown’ by its users by ultimately relying upon them to be the suppliers of a comprehensive list of interesting locations. We describe how these locations would be added, and how they could be shared across an infrastructure to effectively reach all users that have an interest in them. We then outline how effective this par...

With the mass of images we are presented with everyday, there are many times when we see a photo of a place that we would like to visit but are unable to determine where it is. The ability to recognize landmarks from images can be extremely useful both when choosing a travel destination and when trying to identify landmarks in a foreign place. Our project aims to be able to recognize the specif...

When tourists are at a destination, they typically search for information in the Local Tourist Organizations. There, the staff determines the profile of the tourists and their restrictions. Combining this information with their up-to-date knowledge about the local attractions and public transportation, they suggest a personalized route for the tourist agenda. Finally, they fine tune up this rou...

Tourist attraction was used to achieve a stable waterfront, while the fuzzy-logic added intelligence to the select strategy through an automatic selection of the tourist attraction coefficient. This paper examines the relationship between heritage sites, waterfronts, and relationships between people in present-day in urban culture. Urban waterfronts are important and special assets and that, wh...

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...