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

This paper, based on the gravity model of tourism demand, studies the factors to the travel to the neighbor areas with the example of Hong Kong tourists to Macau, analyzing the drawing forces such as promotion activities of Macau’s Special Administrative Region government and the tourism industry, consumptions in Macau, especial events, and Macau’s tourism destination attractiveness, and the pu...

Parking is a key component of urban transportation managements and has become a severe problem at many tourist attractions during holidays in China. This paper presents a novel scheme to relieve the holiday parking pressure. Based on the perspectives of the activity-based travel characteristics, we propose an effort to develop parking alternatives by utilizing existing traffic facilities. A con...

This study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption. By reviewing available studies in the hospitality and tourism literature and synthesising insights from food consumption and sociological research, five socio-cultural and psychological factors influencing tourist food consumption are identified: cultural/religious influences, socio-demographic factors, food...

On New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest aircraft, a Qantas Airbus A380 will set off for a 9,000 kilometre round trip over the Antarctic for tourists to enjoy the spectacular scenery. These tourists will leave a very large carbon footprint, even without landing on the continent, but there is additional, increasing concern about the growing pressure from cruise ships and other tourists wish...

A hypermedia model is presented for the management of extendible multimedia information envisaged for tourist applications. The information is modelled according to the object-oriented methodology and organised into aggregation and specialisation / generalisation hierarchies, containing data that can be further enriched by authorised users typically travel agents. The end-user conceives a hyper...

In these days, understanding tourists’ spatio-temporal movement behaviour is becoming more and more important factor for success of tourist marketing. This paper uses a general purpose data mining tool to identify tourist spatiotemporal movement patterns and across patterns between tourist profiles and their spatio-temporal movement patterns. Major temporal movement sequences and spatial moveme...

Economizing and spending priorities on different types of vacations are investigated during two periods: an economic downturn and returning prosperity. Two nation-wide samples of vacationers are used: one during a downturn, the other one at the start of the recovery period. Through comparing the results, conclusions can be drawn about symmetric or asymmetric tourist demand across the business c...

Based on a spatial model, the Martinique beaches and coastal wetlands are examined to identify the risks of coastal squeeze. In many cases coastal development prevents coasts from adapting by shifting landward. Also tourism infrastructure augments the vulnerability of beach reduction and mangrove squeeze. More than 70% of all Martinique beaches and 29% of mangrove forests are highly endangered ...

This demonstration paper presents a mobile tourist decision support system that suggests personal trips, tailored to the user’s interests and context. The system enables planning a customised trip that maximises the interest of the tourist, while taking the opening hours of the points of interest and the available time into account. The planning problem is modelled as an orienteering problem wi...