A modern tourist product, which is adjusted to the needs of new tourists no longer includes a tourist partnership role, but individualisation and personalisation of the experience itself. Should such a base be accepted, it is to be concluded that traditional positioning of destination tourist offers on both macro and micro levels is no longer sufficient, i.e. positioning based on comparative ad...

A friend of mine This paper is dedicated to the memory of Franco Montagna. Franco was a dear friend of mine. I guess that, among the people who took part in the Conference in memoriam Franco Montagna, I am the person who has known him for the longest time: we were students together at the university of Pavia in the late Sixties. For our "tesi di laurea", in the early Seventies we went to Ferrar...

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...

This paper presents a task model and task ontology based on travelers’ tasks, and an intelligent tourist information service system using them. With the recent advances in Internet and mobile technologies, there has been an increase in the use of intelligent tourist information services via the Web and mobile systems. In addition, many ontologies have been introduced in tourist domain to provid...

Law 135/2001, which deals with the “Reform of national legislation on tourism” recognizes the strategic role of tourism in the economic and occupational development of Italy, which is realized through the competitive growth of the tourist offering at the local, regional and national level. At a local level, the law identifies the tourist offering with the Local Tourist System, and defines it as...

OBJECTIVES Radon concentrations for 31 Polish underground tourist routes were analyzed. The equivalent dose to the lung, the effective dose and the relative risk were calculated for employees of the analyzed routes on the grounds of information on radon concentrations, work time, etc. MATERIAL AND METHODS The relative risk for lung cancers was calculated using the Biological Effects of Ionizi...

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 ...

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...