Tourism Itinerary Recommender Systems

Tourism Itinerary Recommender Systems - In the age of personalization and crowdsourcing - Liviu-Adrian Cotfas   Designing flexible, efficient and user-friendly mobile tour guide applications is important, both from a commercial and a research point of view. Without any support from a system, a user manually building an itinerary should spend a lot of time prior to the trip searching for information regarding the tourist attractions, reading facts about them and designing possible itineraries by taking into account factors such as opening hours, visiting durations, distances and available means of public transport. The contributions of the present book are two-fold. From the theoretical point of view, it contributes to the design and development of highly personalized itinerary recommender systems, while from the practical point of view, an approach for building mobile applications using the latest web technologies is proposed and validated. The first chapter, Introduction, outlines th