A Semantic E-Tourism Framework Based on Cloud-Computing

Currently many new business models of tourism are emerging, which makes modern e-Tourism system more sophisticated and larger than before. However, most existing e-Tourism infrastructures have become very reluctant to meet these new rapidly increasing requirements because of lack in computing and storage flexibility. So this paper presents a promising open e-Tourism framework based on cloud computing which is able to provide elastic utilities and capabilities through virtualization of computing and storage resource. The system architecture and crucial design issues are discussed in the paper.

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