In the e-Turist project we developed a mobile application that provide experience comparable to that offered by a professional tour guide, but tailored to each individual tourist. The tourist can enter his interests (entertainment, active tourism, gastronomy, cultural and natural heritage), the available time and any special requirements he/she may have. Based on these and other data such as op...

The wx-E2 mutation results from a 128-bp transposable element-like insertion in exon 11 of the maize Waxy gene. Surprisingly, 11 maize genes and one barley gene in the GenBank and EMBL data bases were found to contain similar elements in flanking or intron sequences. Members of this previously undescribed family of elements, designated Tourist, are short (133 bp on average), have conserved term...

The Internet has disrupted traditional tourism in which a promising landscape of intelligent service provision has erupted by applying a new lattice of cutting-edge technologies. Thus, the different actors of the tourist services are in a new environment and they should operate in a coordinated manner to increase the value of tourism, to keep current tourists and attract new ones. One of the ma...

Tourist recommendation systems have been growing over the last years, mainly because of the use of mobile devices to obtain user context. This work discuss some of the most relevant systems on the field and presents PSiS Mobile, which is a mobile recommendation and planning application designed to support a tourist during his vacations. It provides recommendations about points of interest to vi...

The study attempts to test a hypothesis and explore some additional empirical evidences of a causal relationship between International Tourist Arrivals, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Economic Growth (GDP). Although tourism has been regarded as one of the most dynamic economic industries in the world, the previous studies of the causality between three variables are exceptionally rare. In ...

Over the last few decades there has been wide interest in linguistic and cultural mediation in tourist communication as a result of the growth of global tourism. Linguistic research in this field has mainly focused on the linguistic features of mediatised representations, such as brochures, websites and guidebooks. It is only very recently that some scholars have started to discuss the contribu...

5 This paper introduces Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) for tourism demand forecasting 6 via an application into total monthly U.S. Tourist arrivals from 1996-2012. The global 7 tourism industry is today, a key driver of foreign exchange inflows to an economy. Here, we 8 compare the forecasting results from SSA with those from ARIMA, Exponential Smoothing 9 (ETS) and Neural Networks (NN). We f...

This study evaluates operation performances of 67 international tourist hotels in Taiwan by using the Context-dependent DEA model of Date Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to find out the performance of these hotels and their competitive advantages. This study differentiates the levels of efficient frontier with the efficiency of each international tourist hotel. Based on the efficiency, the ...

Information technology (IT) underpinning the information society has brought with it a number of changes which have far reaching consequences for business. One such change is the sharing of information between organisations and subsequent altered processes within and between those organisations. But to what extent is co-opetition or collaboration around IT (c-commerce) occurring amongst small a...

Researchers have adopted online data such as search query volumes to forecast tourism demand for a destination, including tourist volumes and hotel occupancy. However, the massive yet highly correlated query data pose challenges when researchers attempt to include them in the forecasting model. We propose a framework and procedure for creating a composite search index adopted in a generalized d...