Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities, and User Interface Design

Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities, and User Interface Design

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Release Date: September, 2009|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 354
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-818-5
ISBN13: 9781605668185|ISBN10: 1605668184|EISBN13: 9781605668192
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Description & Coverage
Description:

Tourism is a multi-billion dollar international industry and also one of the biggest users of Web technologies, constantly adopting innovative ideas to enhance its market penetration.

Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities and User Interface Design provides cohesive coverage of cutting-edge e-tourism systems and directions for future research and development. A defining body of research, this innovative collection provides academicians, researchers, and practitioners with a better understanding of this expanding industry.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Conversational recommender systems
  • Knowledge-based travel advisor systems
  • Map-based interface
  • Model-based user interface generation
  • Multi-agent truth maintenance
  • Semantic user model inferences
  • Social networking for generating travel ideas
  • Tourism recommender system
  • Virtual Reality Systems
  • Web 2.0 tourism sites
Reviews & Statements

"This book will be useful for researchers and practitioners who wish to explore some innovative research being conducted into Travel Recommender Systems, travel related on-line communities, and their user interface design."

– Nalin Sharda, Victoria University, Australia

Despite the fact that tourism informatics now drives the multi-billion global tourism industry, the field has not been given the attention that it needs. This text brings together its various components in a 'one-stop source' that will become an in-valuable resource for developers and researchers in the field.

– Prof. Margaret Deery, Centre for Tourism and Services Research, Victoria University, Australia.

E-tourism is an important multi-faceted field. Bringing together comprehensive coverage of these many facets in a highly accessible fashion is this text's key contribution. It also provides valuable insights into future research and development opportunities in this field. No student of this field should be without this text.

– Prof. Leo Jago, Director, Centre for Tourism and Services Research, Victoria University, Australia.

This book is essential reading for any researcher or practioner seriously interested in ways in which recent, significant advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies may be applied in the tourism domain. This book is essential reading for any researcher or practioner seriously interested in ways in which recent, significant advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies may be applied in the tourism domain.

– Prof. Michael McGrath, Centre for Tourism and Services Research, Victoria University, Australia.

The use of the internet in marketing destinations, selling tourism products and servicing visitor needs is now core to the operations and strategic planning of the tourism industry. Significant investments will be made into a range of new technologies by the industry over the coming years - the book will help both researchers and those working in the tourism industry as they seek to explore the latest advances in online technology and consumer behaviour.

– Paul Baron, Group Manager Online Marketing, Tourism Victoria, Australia.

Keeping in tune with the global nature of the tourism industry, contributors to this volume represent all the continents! The volume is a 'must read' for researchers, both novices and experts, who are interested in improving internet-based tools for marketing tourism related products and services. At the same time, the volume should also appeal highly to all agencies and organizations engaged in the business of tourism promotion.

– Sheel Aditya, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Selected as a Fall 2011 Shelf-Worthy Academic Title by Baker & Taylor.

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Nalin Sharda teaches and leads research in multimedia systems and human-computer interaction at Victoria University (Australia). He has held visiting positions at Aachen University (Germany), Karlstad University (Sweden), Jaypee University of Information Technology (India), and Florida Atlantic University (USA). Dr. Sharda’s publications include the Multimedia Information Networking textbook published by Prentice Hall, and over 120 articles, papers and handbook chapters. Nalin has invented the Movement Oriented Design (MOD) Paradigm for the creation of effective multimedia content based experience, and applied it to e-tourism, e-learning and other applications. He has led projects for the Australian Sustainable Tourism CRC to develop e-Tourism systems using Semantic Web technologies and innovative visualization methodologies. Dr. Sharda has been invited to present lectures and seminars in the Distinguished Lecturer Series of the European Union’s Prolearn program. He has presented over 60 seminars, lectures, and keynote addresses in Austria, Australia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, and USA.
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Editorial Advisory Board
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  • Paul Baron, Group Manager E-Marketing, Tourism Victoria, Australia
  • Suzanne Bergin, Victoria University, Australia
  • Dean Carson, Charles Darwin University, Australia
  • Margaret Deery, Victoria University, Australia
  • Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  • Leo Jago, Victoria University, Australia
  • Michael McGrath, Victoria University, Australia
  • Jamie Murphy, The University of Western Australia, Australia
  • Klemens Waldhör, Krems Tourism Research, Germany
  • John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia