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Tourism Recommender Systems: An Overview of Recommendation Approaches

International Journal of Computer Applications

Recommender systems have become an active research topic during the last two decades, thus giving rise to several approaches and techniques. They have also become increasingly popular among practitioners and used in variety of areas including movies, news, books, research articles restaurants, garments, financial services, insurance, social tags and products in general. Tourism is an important sector for economic development and a potential application area of use of recommender systems. This paper presents an overview of existing recommender approaches used in tourism and discusses their relevance taking into account tourism context and specificities.

Recommender Systems in Tourism

Handbook of e-Tourism, 2020

Recommender systems (RSs) are information search and filtering tools that provide suggestions for items to be of use to a user. They are now common in many Internet applications (Google News, Amazon, TripAdvisor), helping users to make better choices while searching for news, books, or vacations. RSs exploit data mining and information retrieval techniques to predict to what extent an item fits the user needs and wants. RSs interact with the user to finetune these suggestions while presenting a selection of the items, among those having the largest predicted fit score. RSs have been used in tourism applications for suggesting points of interest to visit, holiday properties, and flights, or even generating complete plans for holidays, that is, bundling different types of more

Recommender systems: do they have a viable business model in e-tourism?

2005

The evolution of the internet over the past years has given destinations, suppliers of tourism services and intermediaries a wide range of new possibilities to get into contact with their customers. Destinations are at the heart of travel decisions but yet it is difficult for travelers to find quality information relating to destinations and even more for Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) to distribute their tourism offer.

Tourism recommendation system: empirical investigation

2012

Abstract The paper makes an attempt to justify the necessity of implementing recommendation system which will assist tourists in identification of their ideal holiday. The proposed recommendation system based on collaborative filtering notes positive impulses in the case of Macedonia. A software module is developed being capable to generate a personalized list of favorable and tailor-made items.

Applying Recommender Methodologies in Tourism Sector

Nowadays, there is a constant need for personalization in recommender systems. Thus, they try to bring it by making suggestion and providing information about items available on a system. There are numerous options of methods to be employed in recommender systems, however, they still suffer from critical limitations and drawbacks. Therefore, current recommender techniques try to minimize the affects of such drawbacks. In this work we describe two different recommender methodologies proposed for these systems. To do so, we implemented such methodologies in a real recommender system for tourism. Afterwards, we analyzed and compared the recommendation given by both methodologies in order to find out if they are effective and able to deal with common drawbacks.

Developing a Location-Based Recommender System Using Collaborative Filtering Technique in the Tourism Industry

Tehnički glasnik, 2022

The rapid growth of new information and products in the virtual environment has made it time consuming to acquire relevant information and knowledge amidst a vast amount of information. Therefore, an intelligent system that can offer the most appropriate and desirable among the large amount of information and products by following the conditions and features selected by each user should be essentially efficient. Systems that perform this task are called recommendation systems. Given the volume of social network data, challenges such as short-term processing and increased accuracy of recommendations are discussed in this type of system. Hence, it can perform processes faster with less error and can be effective in improving the performance of social recommending systems in improving the classification and clustering of information with the help of collaboration filtering methods. This study first develops an innovative conceptual model of a social network-based tourism recommendation...

A Review on Content Based Recommender Systems in Tourism

Digital Technologies and Applications, 2021

Recommender systems (RSs) have been used worldwide in several fields to facilitate the tourists’ planning activities. Tourism is one of the fields that uses RSs to reduce the overload of information to end users. Accordingly, tourists get recommendations that are most suitable to their profiles. This paper presents a detailed overview of the tourism recommender systems that were developed since 2008. It focuses mainly on the content based systems and their applications in the tourism field.

Trends and Techniques used in Tourist Recommender System : A Review

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2023

Traveling to other locations for pleasure, business, or other reasons is called tourism. In every sort of recommender system, there are a certain amount of users and items. Creating a recommendation systems is made more difficult by the abundance of information available online and the high volume of website visits. A recommender system pulls the user's preferences or interests from relevant data sets to reduce information overload. This calls for the development of a new recommended system that will deliver higher-quality recommendations for massive data sets. To solve these kinds of problems, we have found several approaches for making recommendations, including three different types: content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, and hybrid filtering. With each type of recommender system, this research also analyses several algorithms. The main aim of this paper is to review several trends and techniques currently being used in tourist recommender systems.

Intelligent tourism recommender systems: A survey

Expert Systems with Applications, 2014

Recommender systems are currently being applied in many different domains. This paper focuses on their application in tourism. A comprehensive and thorough search of the smart e-Tourism recommenders reported in the Artificial Intelligence journals and conferences since 2008 has been made. The paper provides a detailed and up-to-date survey of the field, considering the different kinds of interfaces, the diversity of recommendation algorithms, the functionalities offered by these systems and their use of Artificial Intelligence techniques. The survey also provides some guidelines for the construction of tourism recommenders and outlines the most promising areas of work in the field for the next years. (J. Borràs), antonio.moreno@urv. cat (A. Moreno), aida.valls@urv.cat (A. Valls).