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The rapid appropriation of digital platforms has been transforming the experience of tourism practice in a broad and profound way, its temporality and materiality. When it comes to the experience of interacting in the place you visit, there are ...

Tourism and hospitality have shown to be one of the pioneering sectors in the sharing economy, taking advantages of a collaborative and peer-to-peer market model. In this context, we present ShareCities, a system that allows tourists to exploit a 360° ...

Modern technologies do not only enable new solutions improving humans life but also change the way of doing business. Together these two factors lead to the appearance of a new, previously unavailable, class of systems called product- service systems. ...

An immense effort has been invested so far by the semantic web community to make semantically annotated tourism data available. Naturally, the result of these efforts can only be proven useful if there are applications working on top of the data ...

User-entity affinity is an essential component of many user-centric information systems such as online advertising, exploratory search, recommender system etc. The affinity is often assessed by analysing the interactions between users and ...

The paper proposes an approach, reference model, and case study for a cyber-physical infomobility for tourism application. The logistics system of the hub is considered as a cyber-physical system. The main idea behind the virtual tourist hub concept is ...

This paper presents an e-Tourism application for supporting tourists in a region. The application recommends the tourist attractions that are interested to him/her based on the tourist preferences and the current situation in the region. Attractions and ...

The e-tourism is today an important field of the e-commerce. One specificity of this field is that consumers spend much time comparing many options on multiple websites before purchasing. It's easy for consumers to forget the viewed offers or websites. ...

We discuss a comprehensive study exploring the impact of recommender systems when recommendations are forced to omit popular items (short head) and to use niche products only (long tail). This is an interesting issue in domains, such as e-tourism, where ...

In a number of domains of interest for recommender systems, items are characterized by constrained and variable "capacity": the same product or service can be consumed by a limited number of users and the possibility of item consumption depends on ...

While the cruising industry is enjoying significant and stable growth rates, its online communication has not been extensively researched. This may be due to the fact that cruises are still being sold mainly offline. Nonetheless, both cruisers and the ...

A user-centered approach in the development lifecycle of e- commerce websites is nowadays a crucial factor in the success of any on-line business. The purpose of this paper is twofold: a) to identify the factors that affect e-commerce website usability ...

Ecotourism and e-tourism are both perceived as the overwhelming trend for today s tourism industry, and share some common features on both demand and supply sides, which lays the foundation for the feasibility of the application of e-tourism to ...

The most important event following the establishmenet of the Internet network was the Web introduced by Tim Berners-Lee. Websites give their owners features that allow sharing with which they can publish their content with users and visitors. In the last ...

The semantic web provides improved information access founded on the development of machine processing. E-tourism is a good applicant for semantic web because it is based on information on the internet, in sense of marketing and transaction portal. E-...

Traditionally, single cropping culture is widely adopted owing to uniformly growing requirements and habits. Unfortunately, the culture causes a surplus of crops, which leads to a depression of crop prices. Intercropping is an approach to reduce the ...

Recently, more than 70% of the search engine traffic is utilized on travel-related activities, such as information search and hotel reservations. A travel planning approach has recently been a focus of interests for enhancing performance of the existing ...

Personalized online tourism services play a crucial role for tourists. In order to deliver adequate information, a semantic matching between tourism services and user context is needed. In the phase of trip planning, the essential user context comprises ...

3D Electronic Institutions integrate a multi-agent system methodology for arbitrary e-Commerce applications with immersive collaborative 3D environments. This approach facilitates the development of the social and immersive 3D e-Tourism Environment "...