Application for e-Tourism: Intelligent Mobile Tourist Guide

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 their descriptions & images are extracted from accessible Internet sources (like Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Panoramio). They are ranged by the special recommendation service of the application. Recommendations are based on ratings set by the tourists that use the application. The paper describes the service-based application architecture, ontology for intelligent mobile tourist guide services interaction, and evaluation. Developed application is accessible for download in Google Play market for Android device users.

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