Group sightseeing has some advantages in terms of required budget and so on. Some travel agents provide package tours of group sightseeing, but participants have to follow a predetermined schedule in tour, and thus there may be no plan which perfectly satisfies the tourist’s expectation. In this paper, we formalize a problem to find group sightseeing schedules for each user from given users’ pr...

The present study aimed to design, develop, operate and evaluate a sightseeing spot recommendation system for urban sightseeing spots in order to support individual, as well as group sightseeing activities while taking into consideration the user’s needs, which can change according to the circumstances (each user’s important conditions and sightseeing unit). The system was developed by integrat...

Increasing the tourists is important at sightseeing spots. There are two types of reasons people visit sightseeing spots again: Because they are particularly interesting or something interesting was overlooked. The latter is based on a “feeling of regret.” The feeling of regret can actually change people’s behavior. The feeling of regret involves the difference between the ideal and reality, an...

Increasing the tourists is important at sightseeing spots. There are two types of reasons people visit sightseeing spots again: Because they are particularly interesting or something interesting was overlooked. The latter is based on a “feeling of regret.” The feeling of regret can actually change people’s behavior. The feeling of regret involves the difference between the ideal and reality, an...

In this study, we introduce the crawling/analyzing technology used to search information diffused on the Internet and propose a local information platform that can collect information on sightseeing, as a main item, in Suwa Area of Nagano Prefecture and manage dynamically various information including some events that the travel agents want to inform about and other reputable and interesting ev...

The existing tourism demand forecasting models in tourism are unable to capture useful information from a database with numeric and nonnumeric data. This article presents a new approach that applies the rough set theory to form a forecasting model for sightseeing expenditures in Hong Kong. The rough set theory deals with the classificatory analysis of imprecise, uncertain, or incomplete knowled...

Personal navigation systems have experienced a rising interest in the past few years thanks to the ever-increasing ubiquity of smartphones and in-car navigation systems. In their simplest forms, the goal is to calculate routes that are optimized with respect to criteria such as travel time and distance. Various systems have been proposed that allow for additional dynamic aspects to be included ...

In Japan, regional activation is one of the most important problems for regional areas such as Fukui prefecture. Therefore, several kinds of activities are performed for local residents. Moreover, some approaches with ICT are performed for sightseeing because the rank of sightseeing in Fukui prefecture is somewhat lower than other prefecture in Japan. It is expected that the sightseeing advance...

Information management became the tidal for most occupations. An effective management system to integrate related information for relaxation camp can provide effectiveness from different phases. This can enhance the farm value, feedback with ecology care, and significantly assist for long-term development. In “Medium-range Construction Plan for Important Sightseeing Scenic Spot”, the Ministry o...