SanTour: Towards Personalized Recommendation of Hiking Trails to Health Profiles
| Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
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| 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. |
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