Progress in information technology and tourism management: 20 years on and 10 years after the Internet—The state of eTourism research

This paper reviews the published articles on eTourism in the past 20 years. Using a wide variety of sources, mainly in the tourism literature, this paper comprehensively reviews and analyzes prior studies in the context of Internet applications to Tourism. The paper also projects future developments in eTourism and demonstrates critical changes that will influence the tourism industry structure. A major contribution of this paper is its overview of the research and development efforts that have been endeavoured in the field, and the challenges that tourism researchers are, and will be, facing

Application of an opinion consensus aggregation model based on OWA operators to the recommendation of tourist sites

Given the growth in tourism online data as a result of a large number of users posting their personal opinions in social networks and other online platforms with the idea to help other visitants, many authors have proposed a huge variety of ways to classify the sentiments contained in these opinions in order to recommend services (hotels, restaurants, etc.) and destinations to the users with the intention of facilitating their trip planning. In this paper, the authors propose a model to rank tourist sites of a city, based on OWA operators, with the objective of being used as a recommender system.The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the EU project H2020-MSCA-IF-2016- DeciTrustNET-746398. This paper has been elaborated with the financing of FEDER funds in the Spanish National research project TIN2016-75850-R

Content-based recommender system architecture for similar e-commerce products

Recommendation systems are quite famous and are increasingly being used on e-commerce platforms for a variety of purposes. The recommendation system technique used also varies greatly depending on the scope and Item of recommendation. Content-based filtering, for example, is used to recommend related product items based on user preferences. However, how the recommendation system architecture should be built starts by creating a data model for bringing up related product items. This paper offers a system architecture by considering the initial problem usually faced by recommendation systems, namely the cold start problem. The problem of lack of user preferences data is trying to be overcome by utilizing product item documents. Product item documents are processed using the TF-IDF algorithm and Vector Space Model to generate a data model. Then a query can be applied to find similarities to items that the user has seen. In the end, the recommendation system architecture that was built produced excellent Precision using Recall and Precision testing. Tests are carried out for data using the weighting of product names and product labels. The result obtained 0.84 for the average value of Recall and 0.78 for the average value of Precision