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Typically, people would visit travel websites such as tripadvisor.com, mafengwo.cn, or ctrip.com when planning for their next trip. The lowest airfare, the best hotels, and great attractions can be found on these websites based on requirements provided by users. Millions of traveler reviews, photos, and maps, are also available. With all this information, it may still be time-consuming for users to work out a travel plan, which involves section of attractions from a huge candidate list, and more importantly, an itinerary that guides their daily activities. We therefore proposed a recommendation technique that facilitates the creation of personalized travel plans. Using a tag-based mapping algorithm, we create a list of candidate attractions that best match with the user favorite spots. An itinerary containing attractions that are most appealing to users will be derived from the candidate list and we refer to this kind of itinerary as MAI. Meanwhile, by applying K-Means clustering to the list of candidate attractions according to their geographical location, we will be able to produce the shortest itinerary (SI) and the itinerary with the highest performance/price ratio (MEI). A series of experiments have been carried out to help evaluation of our recommendation technique and the results demonstrate that our personalized recommender for travel planning can provide a better and more detailed travel plan that satisfies users with various requirements.
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The first site of each cluster is any site that the user specifies as her favorite site.
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Gu, Y., Zhou, J., Feng, H., Chen, A., Liu, S. (2018). A Recommender for Personalized Travel Itineraries. In: Sun, X., Pan, Z., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11068. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00021-9_26
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