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 ...

International tourism is an important source of service exports to Spain and its regions, particularly the Canary Islands. Tourism is the major industry in the Canary Islands, accounting for about 22% of GDP. This paper examines time series of international tourism demand to the Canary Islands collected by the National Airport Administration (AENA) at airports from information regarding the num...

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...

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...

The aim of this study was to examine whether Tourist-Generated Photographs (TGP) and images shared by them, on online media channels can affect tourist destination decisions. conducted descriptive-survey research. statistical population the research included tourists who traveled city 15 May 2022H15 2022 (Shiraz National Day). Simple random sampling used determine sample distributed questionnai...

Determinant factors of tourists satisfaction in Muslim's Countries: A Structural equation model (SEM) Dr. Ayed Al Muala Applied Science University, [email protected] Abstract The challenges for the tourism sector in Islamic countries has become increasingly with the Arab spring. has suffered the Arab Islamic countries and damaged because of the wars in the region and the lack of security and...

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...

Models depicting the spatial movement patterns of tourists within a destination are proposed in this paper. They are developed using an inductive approach based on urban transportation modeling and tourist behavior, to identify explanatory factors that could influence movements. Factors identified included a set of destination characteristics and a set of tourist characteristics that influence ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the aetiology, epidemiology and sanitary factors of carriage of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC) in food-handlers working in tourist hotels in three popular tourist destinations in Kenya. DESIGN Cross sectional laboratory based study. SETTING Three tourist destinations of Nairobi, Malindi and Diani in Kenya. SUBJECTS...

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...