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...

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...

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...

The purpose of this article is to propose a model that links broader general personality and travel personality traits with tourists’ information behaviour. The model asserts that both types of personality traits will have an influence on tourist information behaviour. Furthermore it is asserted that tourist information needs will have an influence on other tourist information behaviour, includ...

In literature, analyses can be found of the competitiveness of international tourist destinations, based on tourist satisfaction with different attributes. However, most of these analyses do not use one single measure to make a global assessment, which makes it difficult to compare destinations. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, some alternatives that can be used as a synthetic index of ...

Tourist services are one of the most popular products offered online. This has given rise to all service suppliers to offer their products over the Internet. Currently elementary services as hotels, flights or rental cars and travel packages can be booked online. Despite the high interdependence of tourist products there is no possibility for easy and user friendly online bundling of tourist pr...

This study aims to test a model linking destination image, perceived value, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty. Based on a sample of 300 tourists travelling by car from the World Natural Heritage Site of Tianchi, China, a new model of destination image was explored and data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that perceiv...

When tourists visit a city or region, they usually cannot visit every point of interest available as they are constrained in time and budget. Tourist recommender applications help tourists by facilitating personal selection. Providing adequate tour scheduling support for these kinds of applications is a daunting task for the application developer. The objective of this article is to demonstrate...