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     author = {Calbimonte, Jean-Paul and Zappellaz, Nancy and H{\'{e}}bert, Emeline and Simon, Maya and D{\'{e}}l{\'{e}}troz, Nicolas and Hilfiker, Roger and Cotting, Alexandre},
      title = {SanTour: Towards Personalized Recommendation of Hiking Trails to Health Profiles},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs on Travel and Tourism},
     volume = {11153},
       year = {2018},
  publisher = {Springer},
        doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03056-8_23},
   abstract = {Health tourism represents a promising niche still insufficiently exploited in Europe and Switzerland. Hiking has been a popular tourist activity for years and staying healthy is an important motivation for hiking. However, physical and psychological limitations in potential hikers often represent an unsurmountable barrier to complete a particular path. This mismatch between trail and user results in a poor visitor experience, affecting negatively both the user and the touristic destination. This paper presents SanTour, a novel concept in health tourism centered on the needs of visitors by considering their physical capacities and limits, as well as their expectations. SanTour exploits two main knowledge bases: one centered on the user, including a health profile, and another centered on the hiking trails. In a pilot phase, the concept has been prototyped and tested on a limited scale, with support from a tourist office in Switzerland. We plan to further develop this application that will provide an innovative service to hikers by cross-referencing their physical abilities and the characteristics of the hiking trails.}
}