1. Samap. An user-oriented adaptive system for planning tourist visits http://www.atelier.net/articles/telephone-un-guide-touristique-personnalise * Innovation on the webpage publication of “L'Atelier BNP Paribas – Paris” June 23 2008.
The goal of Samap is to compute a tourist plan for a user with Internet access via a ubiquitous device, such as a PDA or a mobile phone. This system needs to have access to related information:
• Information about the city, that is, the context that surrounds the visit (i.e. monuments and interesting places in a city, transport means, etc.)
• Personal data, interests and preferences of the user, that is, type of activities that this user likes to do when s/he visits other cities (user model)
• Places that other people similar to our current user liked when they visited the same city (plans of other users)
• Basic services that this user prefers when performing his/her activities (i.e. payment with credit card, use only taxi for movements, etc.)
Then Samap computes a plan that contains the following elements:
• A selection of the most interesting places for this user according to his/her model
• Indications about which transportation means s/he should take to move between different places including walking
• Recommendations about where to have lunch or dinner (restaurants, bars, etc.)
• Proposals of places of leisure such as cinemas or theatres
Electronic tourism is one of the activities that have enjoyed of an important success in the Internet, not only from the commercial point of view but also from a social perspective. Many sites provide information about hotels, plane tickets, etc. There are also recommender systems that tell us which destination is more suitable according to our preferences. Once a destination has been selected, we can find many sites which give us information about places to visit in a city, activities to do during the travel, restaurants, etc. But this information is static in most cases;