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Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-Based Tourism Support System
In Japan, distributed travelDistributed travel is recently promoted in order to prevent both the problems associated with overtourismOvertourism and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 pandemicin urban tourist destinationsUrban tourist destination. The present study developed a tourism support systemTourism support systemby integrating web-geographic information systemWeb-Geographic Information System (Web-GIS)(Web-GIS), recommendation systemRecommendation systemand social network servicesSocial Network Services (SNS) (SNS). The system has two unique key functions (the functions of tourism congestionTourism congestion display and tourist attraction recommendation) in order to promote distributed travelDistributed travel during the sightseeing planning stage. The system was operated for six weeks targeting Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The evaluation results for the system performance revealed that the function of tourism congestionTourism congestion display can promote tourism that takes congestion periods and areas into consideration. It also showed that the function of tourist attractionTourist attraction recommendation can provide users with novel tourist attraction recommendations and achieve high levels of intent to visit recommended tourist attractions.
Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-Based Tourism Support System
In Japan, distributed travelDistributed travel is recently promoted in order to prevent both the problems associated with overtourismOvertourism and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 pandemicin urban tourist destinationsUrban tourist destination. The present study developed a tourism support systemTourism support systemby integrating web-geographic information systemWeb-Geographic Information System (Web-GIS)(Web-GIS), recommendation systemRecommendation systemand social network servicesSocial Network Services (SNS) (SNS). The system has two unique key functions (the functions of tourism congestionTourism congestion display and tourist attraction recommendation) in order to promote distributed travelDistributed travel during the sightseeing planning stage. The system was operated for six weeks targeting Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The evaluation results for the system performance revealed that the function of tourism congestionTourism congestion display can promote tourism that takes congestion periods and areas into consideration. It also showed that the function of tourist attractionTourist attraction recommendation can provide users with novel tourist attraction recommendations and achieve high levels of intent to visit recommended tourist attractions.
Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-Based Tourism Support System
The Urban Book Series
Goodspeed, Robert (editor) / Sengupta, Raja (editor) / Kyttä, Marketta (editor) / Pettit, Christopher (editor) / Kato, Yudai (author) / Yamamoto, Kayoko (author)
International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management ; 2023 ; Montreal, QC, Canada
2023-06-02
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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