Tourism is both an important industry and popular leisure activity undertaken by millions
around the world. One important task for tourists is to plan and schedule tour itineraries that …

During a trip planning, tourists gather information from different sources, select and rank the
places to visit according to their personal interests, and try to devise daily tours among them …

Planning travel to unfamiliar regions is a difficult task for novice travelers. The burden can be
eased if the resident of the area offers to help. In this paper, we propose a social itinerary …

Traveling recommendation systems have become very popular applications for organizing
and planning tourist trips. Among other challenges, these applications are faced with the …

Tour recommendation and itinerary planning are challenging tasks for tourists, due to their
need to select Points of Interest (POI) to visit in unfamiliar cities, and to select POIs that align …

Online social networks now play a prominent role in our daily lives and our decisions and
behaviors in many areas. Of particular interest here is the application of social network data …

Travelling is a combination of journey, transportation, travel-time, accommodation, weather,
events, and other aspects which are likely to be experienced by most of the people at some …

Recent developments in internet technologies have created a massive demand for online
services with the rapidly growing users. Travel recommender systems have been embraced …

Abstract Recommender Systems (RSs) have been extensively utilized as a means of
reducing the information overload and offering travel recommendations to tourists. The …

As location-based social network (LBSN) services become increasingly popular, trip
recommendation that recommends a sequence of points of interest (POIs) to visit for a user …