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 ...

Abstract Tourism is a significant economic activity for developing any national economy and the world as well. Revenues generated through tourism services affect GDP directly stimulate growth. The revenues are important economies, i.e. foreign exchange inflow, tourist export. However, many factors impact on volume of arrivals, thus both inflows GDP. Government measures taken various reasons tha...

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 ...

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...

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...

At a time when tourism is the preeminent global industry, the Mediterranean is one of the most important tourist regions in the world, accounting for approximately a third of total tourism revenues and half of international arrivals. Because the traditional sun, sand, and sea tourist product of the Mediterranean is experiencing a crisis with subsequent market shifts toward other regions and alt...

In this paper, we present Face Translation, a translation agent for people who speak different languages. The system can not only translate a spoken utterance into another language, but also produce an audio-visual output with the speaker’s face and synchronized lip movement. The visual output is synthesized from real images based on image morphing technology. Both mouth and eye movements are g...