Applying Semantic Web to E-Tourism

Abstract

Traditional E-Tourism applications store data internally in a form that is not interoperable with similar systems. Hence, tourist agents spend plenty of time updating data about vacation packages in order to provide good service to their clients. On the other hand, their clients spend plenty of time searching for the ‘perfect’ vacation package as the data about tourist offers are not integrated and are available from different spots on the Web. We developed Travel Guides - a prototype system for tourism management to illustrate how semantic web technologies combined with traditional E-Tourism applications: a.) help integration of tourism sources dispersed on the Web b) enable creating sophisticated user profiles. Maintaining quality user profiles enables system personalization and adaptivity of the content shown to the user. The core of this system is in ontologies – they enable machine readable and machine understandable representation of the data and more importantly reasoning.

Tourism Information System for Kota Kapur Village As Island and Historical Destination

“…Danica Damljanovic and Vladan Devedzic illustrated how the semantic web technologies combined with traditional etourism application concepts such as user interest, activities, age group are used and concepts like vacation packages, types of vacation, traveler's types, accommodation, food service, transportation service and room type in hotel are the valid parameters [7].…”

TripICS - a Web Service Composition System for Planning Trips and Travels

“…As to the quality function, the user can choose between several schemes, but he can also enable/disable some of the function components. For example, if the user prefers only to minimize the total price, the quality function is expressed by W price * i=1..5 o i .price, and the optimal solution is (4,4,5,3,4) with the price 1561, where W price is some negative constant (a weight). The numbers in the sequence correspond to the numbers of the offers in the corresponding offer sets.…”

“…In this paper we present the system TripICS -a real-life application of our Web service composition system PlanICS [8,9,13] to planning trips and travels around the world. While there are systems offering some support for planning excursions and travels [4,5], our system uses advanced automated concrete planning methods [13,16,14]. TripICS is a specialization of the concrete planning viewed as a constrained optimization problem to the ontology containing services provided by hotels, airlines, railways, museums etc.…”

Tourism Information System- Integration and Information Retrieval of Tourism Information Systems using Semantic Web Services

“…It consist of two Ontologies on for user profile and the other concerning about tourism information and data in order to assist visitors of an area to plan their visit, Bayesian network is used to estimate the travelers preferred activities [10]. Danica Damljanovic and Vladan Devedzic illustrated how the semantic web technologies combined with traditional etourism application concepts such as user interest, activities, age group are used and concepts like vacation packages, types of vacation, traveler's types, accommodation, food service, transportation service and room type in hotel are the valid parameters [11].…”