Tour Recommender Systems on Web
Abstract:
Tour Recommender System on Web Recent years has witnessed an increased interest in recommender systems. Despite significant progress in this field, there still remain numerous avenues to explore. Indeed, this paper provides a study of exploiting online travel information for personalized travel package recommendation. A critical challenge along this line is to address the unique characteristics of travel data, which distinguish travel packages from traditional items for recommendation. To that end, in this paper, we first analyze the characteristics of the existing travel packages and develop a tourist-area-season topic (TAST) model. This TAST model can represent travel packages and tourists by different topic distributions, where the topic extraction is conditioned on both the tourists and the intrinsic features (i.e., locations, travel seasons) of the landscapes. Then, based on this topic model representation, we propose a cocktail approach to generate the lists for personalized travel package recommendation. Furthermore, we extend the TAST model to the tourist-relation-area-season topic (TRAST) model for capturing the latent relationships among the tourists in each travel group. Finally, we evaluate the TAST model, the TRAST model, and the cocktail recommendation approach on the real-world travel package data. Experimental results show that the TAST model can effectively capture the unique characteristics of the travel data and the cocktail approach is, thus, much more effective than traditional recommendation techniques for travel package recommendation. Also, by considering tourist relationships, the TRAST model can be used as an effective assessment for travel group formation.
SYSTEM ANALYSIS
EXISTING SYSTEM
A critical challenge along this line is to address the unique characteristics of travel data, which distinguish travel packages from traditional items for recommendation. To that end, in this paper, we first analyze the characteristics of the existing travel packages and develop a tourist-area-season topic (TAST) model. We first analyze the key characteristics of the existing travel packages. Thus, the users are the tourists and the items are the existing packages. Meanwhile, most of the landscapes will keep in use, which means nearly all the new packages are totally or partially composed by the existing landscapes. Since TASTContent can only capture the existing travel interests of the tourists, thus it may also suffer from the overspecialization problem.
PROPOSED SYSTEM
We propose a cocktail approach to generate the lists for personalized travel package recommendation. Furthermore, we extend the TAST model to the tourist-relation-area-season topic (TRAST) model for capturing the latent relationships among the tourists in each travel group. Finally, we evaluate the TAST model, the TRAST model, and the cocktail recommendation approach on the real-world travel package data. Experimental results show that the TAST model can effectively capture the unique characteristics of the travel data and the cocktail approach is, thus, much more effective than traditional recommendation techniques for travel package recommendation. We evaluate the erformances of the proposed models on real-world data, and some of previous results (25) are omitted due to the space limit.
Advantage
We discuss the advantages and limitations of this study. From the experimental results, we can see that the proposed cocktail recommendation approach works very well for predicting the tourists’ travel preferences by exploiting the unique characteristics of the travel package data.
ALGORITHMS
v We refer to K-means, one of the most popular clustering algorithms.
v The average of individual Top-Ks are used for comparing the performances of the algorithms
v We find that the differences between the ratings obtained by Cocktail and the other algorithms
v We also noticed that it is often hard for them to directly judge two recommendation results from different algorithms.
v Among all the algorithms, BSVD and LBSVD are the most efficient, and Cocktail- has the worst computational performance.
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Travel Package Recommendation
v Tour in Disneyland
v Honking
v Amusement parks
v Niagara Falls Discovery
v Central Park
v Maple Leaf Adventures
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v Travel Package Tour in Disneyland
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v Travel Package Honking
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v Travel Package Amusement parks
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v Travel Package Niagara Falls Discovery
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v Central Park
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v Travel Package Maple Leaf Adventures
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Ø About Maple Leaf Adventures
Selected for Canada’s “Signature Experiences Collection” by the Canadian Tourism Commission, Maple Leaf Adventures has provided conservation-focused, big adventures aboard small ships since 1986. With a reputation as one of Canada’s top sustainable tour operators, its multi-day excursions give guests one-of-a-kind experiences in some of the most beautiful and rare places in the world, often in areas that were once under threat of destruction or in dire need of protection. In 2012, Maple Leaf was awarded the Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism Award, for promoting the appreciation of Canada’s natural, cultural and aesthetic heritage, while also protecting them. As a long time practitioner of ecotourism, Maple Leaf Adventures pioneered travel in BC’s Great Bear Rainforest and northwestern Vancouver Island and has made significant contributions to conservation. National Geographic Adventure has rated Maple Leaf Adventures one of the “Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth”.
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