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...

Tourism has long been considered as a 'clean industry' with almost no negative effects on the environment. This study demonstrated, in two different coastal systems (Mediterranean and Baltic), that tourism related activities are particularly affecting the sandy beach meio- and nematofauna in the upper beach zone, the specific ecotone in which many meiofauna species from both the marine and the ...

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 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 ...