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 ...

T hanks to their enclosed nature and well-defined role, museums are a fertile ground for studying visitor behavior and envisioning systems to enhance the visitor's experience. 1 Early electronic guidebook tools in the form of acoustic guides have been successfully deployed in museums for some time. However, their application is limited because they can inform only by describing ; they require t...

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...

Tourist movement is a complex process, but it provides very useful information for park managers and tourist operators. This paper aims to establish a sound methodology for modelling the spatial and temporal movement of tourists, with the objectives of understanding, predicting, controlling and optimising the decisions made by them as they go about choosing the attractions they want to visit.. ...

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos 1, , Ana Inês Oliveira , Roberto Ratti , Damjan Demsar , Fabiano Baldo , Toni Jarimo 6 1 New University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL, [email protected] 2 UNINOVA, PORTUGAL, [email protected] 3 TXT Solutions, ITALY, [email protected] 4 Jozef Stefan Institute, SLOVENIA, [email protected] 5 Federal University of Santa Catarina, BRAZIL, [email protected] 6 VTT Technical Research C...

This study seeks to explore attributes affecting the level of tourist satisfaction with and loyalty towards theatrical performance in China. Based on four focus group discussions with 31 participants, the study identifies 34 attributes that affect the level of tourist satisfaction with theatrical performance, and groups them into five categories: stage, performance, venue, service, and tourist-...

Presented here is a useful guidebook to help prepare students for exams in the Life Sciences subject. The guidebook is divided into two sections: the first deals with basic exam preparation and the second specifically discusses Life Sciences exams. The introduction begins with an explanation of specific terminology, such as competence orientation, learning goals, and quality criteria. The compa...