Personalizing trip recommendations: A framework proposal
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Personalized trip planning is a very common problem in tourism domain. There are several studies in this area each one of all aims to provide recommendations based on user preferences. Recommendation engines mostly use two common methods: content based filtering and collaborative filtering. As a combination of these two methods, hybrid approaches are also popular for recommendation systems. This study provides a deep analysis about recent studies in trip recommendation domain. Applied techniques and mentioned methodologies in literature is discussed at all points. Insights about the proposed systems are provided clearly. Besides a literature survey, this study also proposes a novel travel recommender method based on a tourism datasource. A hybrid approach involving demographic, content-based and collaborative filtering techniques are proposed in order to eliminate drawbacks of each approach. Recommendations will be based on many factors including users’ demographic information, past travel locations and favorite seasons. Based on such inputs, recommender engine predicts possible travel locations along with various flight options. Possible challenges and future trends are concluded as a result of this study.
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Keywords: Recommender systems, trip recommendation, personalized recommendation, information filtering.
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