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...

In order to improve tourist satisfaction and promote the coordinated development of tourism and urban, this paper investigates an urban transportation network problem for tourism via lane reservation strategy. The focus of the problem is to select some lanes from the existing transportation infrastructure and convert them to reserved lanes for tourism so that tourist satisfaction can be ensured...

This paper focuses on the tourism-related opinion mining, including tourism-related opinion detection and tourist attraction target identification. The experimental data are blog articles labeled as 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 propose...

This article discusses the question of identity through the globalized emergence of tourism. Tourism is a result of an unavoidable cultural contact with positive and negative effects. A contact of two different identities, that of tourist and the host, can bring numerous changes to the local community, but can also affect the tourists’ interpretation of the destination. Here we can frequently e...

Open-air heritage sites have started making use of different types of tourist guides in order to attract a larger number of visitors as well as educate them in a more challenging manner. However, most of them are still using static audiovisual guides which usually require input from visitors to operate. On the contrary, location-based heritage guides offer a number of advantages over traditiona...