Problems Of Tourism

Tourism, which is based on the information science is an Industry that rapidly grows with the development of the applications of information technology in this digital era. This industry is comprehensive so that it is able to cover a great deal of other industries like hospitality, itinerary planning, transportation and so on. Travel and tourism industry contribute towards the economy of a country, specially it directly contributes to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and also the employment of a country. With the concepts of intelligent tourism denoting the technologies such as internet of things, intelligent data mining, cloud computing, ontology technology and the mobile technology alone with the web services have made it sophisticated

Most common problem is tourist do not have an idea about that specific country and also their language. Additionally, personalization is another important thing. It is really important to consider about the preferences of the tourist before a tour is planned. When it comes to personalization demographic feature identification is another specific task in making a perfect tour plan. As the tourism industry have no breaks during a year, another problem people are facing is the lack of knowledge about the climatic and seasonal changes. tourists should be given out a good scenic view of the places they prefer with the seasons and climates which are appropriate to visit. And also, people always find doubts in matching their budget with the expenses they will have to make for the tour. People will face various problems when they use web sites of different agents or tourist management departments when the site seems not to be user friendly. Because of these reasons tourists may falter to visit some countries which may affect to that country’s economic growth. So, having a web based userfriendly tourism management system is important. This paper reviews existing tourism management systems and their performances and how technology can improve existing

LITERATURE REVIEW There are so many ongoing structural changes, domain specific requirements, achievements and challenges in the field of Travel and Tourism as discussed in the paper Intelligent Systems in Travel and Tourism by Hannes Werthner. (Werthner, n.d.)This paper overviews about the industry in the Artificial Intelligence and e-Commerce point of view. It describes the production and distribution based on cooperation where we meet supply and demand as the two major parties in the transactions of this information oriented tourism industry. Hannes talks about a New Business Landscape where he finds Web as a way of changing consumer behavior, reaching the new market. (Werthner, 2001)Four strategies are mentioned for the design and production of new products with a range