Tourists often have a hard time making their tour plans, especially when they are visiting a large city on a tight schedule. To relieve tourists from such difficulty, a computer-aided interactive tour planning system, called CT-Planner2, was developed. This system models a tourist advisor who makes tour plans customized for individual tourists. Guided by an interactive agent, each user of this ...

For countries, tourism is a sector that provides significant income and open to continuous development. Countries with various tourist attractions can benefit from strategies policies attract demand both nationally internationally. Different characteristics of destinations also play an active role in tourists' preference for the relevant destination. The authenticity, quality reliability local ...

A richness of tourism attractions has given Iran global importance within its border. is a country with huge cultural heritage, and rich in historical monuments from different eras. The variety diversity symbols allows tourists traveling to experience the cultures other countries. border areas are therefore becoming increasingly attractive for due their distinctive social, economic political po...

Weather and climate are important factors for travel decision-making and overall tourist satisfaction. As central motivators for destination choice, they directly and indirectly influence demand patterns and can be a resource and limitation for tourism at the same time. In this paper, results of an in-situ survey of mountain summer tourists (n = 733) in the Alps in Southern Germany are presente...

Noppitam district, Nakhon Si Thammarat is known as one of Thailand’s rich natural sources which features a range agro-tourist attractions. However, there no dependable information system for management tourism and routing guidance available in such district. The locals mostly resort to their own social media platforms attempt publicize local attractions, unfortunately causes disorderliness the ...

When tourists are at a destination, they typically search for information in the Local Tourist Organizations. There, the staff determines the profile of the tourists and their restrictions. Combining this information with their up-to-date knowledge about the local attractions and public transportation, they suggest a personalized route for the tourist agenda. Finally, they fine tune up this rou...

By presenting tourists with real-time information an increase in efficiency and satisfaction of their day planning can be achieved. At the same time, real-time information services can offer the municipality the opportunity to spread the tourists throughout the city centre. An important factor for success is if we can influence tourist day planning. Therefore we studied how tourists could be pe...

Tourism plays an important role in the economies of many countries. Tourism can secure employment, foreign exchange earnings, investment and regional development. To attract more tourists and local visitors, many stakeholders such as natural parks, museums, art galleries, hotels and restaurants provide personalised services to meet individual needs. With the increasing number of tourists comes ...