Tourist trip planning functionalities: state-of-the-art and future

  • Authors:
  • Wouter Souffriau;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • Affiliations:
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ICWE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

When tourists visit a city or region, they cannot visit every point of interest available, as they are constrained in time and budget. Tourist recommender applications help tourists by presenting a personal selection. Providing adequate tour scheduling support for these kinds of applications is a daunting task for the application developer. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how existing models from the field of Operations Research (OR) fit this scheduling problem, and enable a wide range of tourist trip planning functionalities. Using the Orienteering Problem (OP) and its extensions to model the tourist trip planning problem, allows to deal with a vast number of practical planning problems.