In our study, we explore the extension analysis of ecological engineering management of the tourist area. And the primary goal in ecological engineering management is to realize the sustainable development of the tourist area. We set targets for the sustainable development of the tourist area on the basis of the analysis on the current situation. And then we build up target and condition matter...

This paper proposes a tourist route model that is based on the integration of GIS spatial analysis functions and a kind of heuristic search algorithm based on local optimisation. A vector-based model is used to represent tourists’ personal interests and the available tourist resources. Based on these two representations, the system can build a user model that indicates the attractions values of...

This netnographic study explores first-person stories from online personal travel reports to gain an understanding of tourist experiences. This study uses these stories in order to model tourist spatiotemporal movement at the destination within the context of their tourist-activated networks. The stories provide information about the behavior of tourists on the move with respect to their proble...

Many mature and popular tourist destinations are attracting large volumes of tourist flows. Especially during peak periods this may lead to congestion phenomena in different areas of tourist cities. This paper presents the results of a tourist survey carried out in the city centre of Amsterdam, during the high tourist season (2006), when congestion phenomena are clearly present. In addition to ...

The paper represents the Turdis database of spontaneous conversations in tourist domain in Slovenian language. Database was built for use in developing speech-to-speech translation components, however it can be used also for developing dialog systems or used for linguistic researches. The idea was to record a database of telephone conversations in tourism where the naturalness of conversations ...

An advanced mobile tourist information system delivers information about sights and events on a tourists travel route. The system should be personalized in its interaction with the tourist. Data that can be used for personalization are: the tourists interest profile, an analysis of their travel history, and the tourists feedback about sights. Existing mobile information systems for tourists do ...

This article describes a framework that capitalizes on the large-scale opportunistic mobile sensing approach for tourist behavior analysis. The article describes the use of massive mobile phone GPS location records to study tourist travel behavior, in particular, number of trips made, time spent at destinations, and mode of transportation used. Moreover, this study examined the relationship bet...

Previous research on Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China, suggested that ecotourism can have detrimental consequences. This study identified sequences of behaviors that typically occur in macaque-tourist interactions to examine whether particular tourist behaviors precipitate monkey responses. Focal sampling was used to record relevant behaviors from tourists and 10 maca...

The Orienteering Problem (OP) is a combinatorial routing problem of which the goal is to find a tour that maximises the total score earned by visiting vertices. A set of vertices is given, determined by their coordinates and a score. The pairwise travel times between the vertices are known. The total travel time should not exceed a predetermined time budget. Each vertex can be visited at most o...