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Tourism mobile and recommendation systems - a state of the art

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Summary:	Recommendation systems have been growing in number for the last fifteen years. To evolve and adapt to the demands of the actual society, many paradigms emerged giving birth to even more paradigms and hybrid approaches. Mobile devices have also been under an incredible growth rate in every business area, and there are already lots of mobile based systems to assist tourists. This explosive growth gave birth to different mobile applications, each having their own advantages and disadvantages. Since recommendation and mobile systems might as well be integrated, this work intends to present the current state of the art in tourism mobile and recommendation systems, as well as to state their advantages and disadvantages.
Main Authors:	Luz, Nuno
Other Authors:	Anacleto, Ricardo; Almeida, Ana
Subject:	Decision support systems e-Tourism Recommendation systems Mobile systems Knowledge management
Year:	2010
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	conference output
Access type:	open access
Associated institution:	Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Language:	English
Origin:	Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto

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Summary:	Recommendation systems have been growing in number for the last fifteen years. To evolve and adapt to the demands of the actual society, many paradigms emerged giving birth to even more paradigms and hybrid approaches. Mobile devices have also been under an incredible growth rate in every business area, and there are already lots of mobile based systems to assist tourists. This explosive growth gave birth to different mobile applications, each having their own advantages and disadvantages. Since recommendation and mobile systems might as well be integrated, this work intends to present the current state of the art in tourism mobile and recommendation systems, as well as to state their advantages and disadvantages.

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