Intelligent information interactions for tourism destinations

Summarization: A new approach for the promotion of tourism destinations is presented. This approach attempts to bridge the "community gap" (i.e., the lack of any interaction between content providers and content consumers) and to provide support for the promotion of a visitor attraction. This approach handles both typical tourism information about an attraction and the "warm knowledge" related to the experiences of other visitors/locals associated with the attraction. Its cornerstone is the Knowledge Base that efficiently supports a rich set of services and diverse interaction means. Main services include: enhanced topics of discussion; support for communities of people; matchmaking; awareness; semi-automatic creation and maintenance of personal diaries; personalized maps; advanced searching; time support; and content generation.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: In the proceedings of the Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Touris