A framework for tourist recommendation system exploiting geo-tagged photos

Thenmozhi, M.; S, Harshitha; Gayathidevi, Meher; Reddy, Colin

doi:10.1109/isco.2016.7726981

Cited by 4 publications

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“…The articles related to this parameter disclose various dimensions of using Social Media in tourism. These dimensions include automatic text analysis and mining [64,235,236], forecasting tourist demand [13,237,238], tourist recommendation systems [239], and mining travel locations and routes [240].…”

Section: Online and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Smarter Sustainable Tourism: Data-Driven Multi-Perspective Parameter Discovery for Autonomous Design and Operations

Alsahafi¹,

Alzahrani²,

Mehmood³

2023

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The Global natural and manmade events are exposing the fragility of the tourism industry and its impact on the global economy. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism contributed 10.3% to the global GDP and employed 333 million people but saw a significant decline due to the pandemic. Sustainable and smart tourism requires collaboration from all stakeholders and a comprehensive understanding of global and local issues to drive responsible and innovative growth in the sector. This paper presents an approach for leveraging big data and deep learning to dis-cover holistic, multi-perspective (e.g., local, cultural, national, and international) and objective information on a subject. Specifically, we develop a machine learning pipeline to extract parameters from academic literature and public opinions on Twitter, providing a unique and comprehensive view of the industry from both academic and public perspectives. The academic-view dataset was created from the Scopus database and contains 156,759 research articles from 2000 to 2022, which were modelled to identify 33 distinct parameters in 4 categories: Tourism Types, Planning, Challenges, and Media &amp; Technologies. A Twitter dataset of 485,813 tweets was collected over 18 months starting March 2021 to August 2022 to showcase public perception of tourism in Saudi Arabia, which was modelled to reveal 13 parameters categorized into two broader sets: Tourist Attractions and Tourism Services. Discovering system parameters are re-quired to embed autonomous capabilities in systems and for decision-making and problem-solving during system design and operations. The proposed approach improves AI-based information discovery by extending the use of scientific literature, Twitter, and other sources for autonomous, dynamic optimizations of systems, promoting novel research in the tourism sector and contributing to the development of smart and sustainable societies. The paper also presents a comprehensive knowledge structure and literature review of the tourism sector based on over 250 research articles.

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Section: Online and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Smarter Sustainable Tourism: Data-Driven Multi-Perspective Parameter Discovery for Autonomous Design and Operations

Alsahafi¹,

Alzahrani²,

Mehmood³

2023

Preprint

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“…Many types of research investigate tour preference by studying traveller's social media posts and tag data. Based on Geo-tagged photos, some research on the correlation of several Geotagged images with an actual number of visitors [10], some on traveller's spatiotemporal behaviour [11], some on travel route recommendation system algorithm [12], and some on city impressions and big events and their combined impact on travel decision [13]. However, those papers do not fully consider the features of new city tourists and their touring preference sequences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Discovering Travel Spatiotemporal Pattern Based on Sequential Events Similarity

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Travel route preferences can strongly interact with the events that happened in networked traveling, and this coevolving phenomena are essential in providing theoretical foundations for travel route recommendation and predicting collective behaviour in social systems. While most literature puts the focus on route recommendation of individual scenic spots instead of city travel, we propose a novel approach named City Travel Route Recommendation based on Sequential Events Similarity (CTRR-SES) by applying the coevolving spreading dynamics of the city tour networks and mine the travel spatiotemporal patterns in the networks. First, we present the Event Sequence Similarity Measurement Method based on modelling tourists’ travel sequences. The method can help measure similarities in various city travel routes, which combine different scenic types, time slots, and relative locations. Second, by applying the user preference learning method based on scenic type, we learn from the user’s city travel historical data and compute the personalized travel preference. Finally, we verify our algorithm by collecting data of 54 city travellers of their historical spatiotemporal routes in the ten most popular cities from Mafeng.com. CTRR-SES shows better performance in predicting the user’s new city travel sequence fitting the user’s individual preference.

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