A development of real-time tourism information recommendation system for smart phone using responsive web design, spatial and temporal ontology

Abstract

This research presents the development of a real-time tourism information recommendation system on smart phone (RTIRS) using responsive web design. Three key components of the proposed system are temporal and spatial ontology databases which collect tourism information in Nakhonsawan province, i.e., tourism locations, restaurants, accommodations, festivals or traditions. Second, the responsive web design using Bootstrap framework is implemented in order to adapt the display of websites for various screen sizes of smart phones. Third, the real-time tourism recommendation system using PHP and SPARQL is utilized for temporal and spatial ontology search. The experimental results of the real-time tourism information recommendation system show that the system can suitably display tourism information on the different screen sizes of smart phones. The displayed information is specific to users’ locations and times which is tourism locations, restaurants, accommodations, festivals, and traditions. The direction to the suggested locations by google map is shown as well. Therefore, the tourists will not miss the important activities and travel effectively. Otherwise, the system can search the tourism information by users’ search words which help users to set up the well itinerary planning. The efficiency of the proposed system is excellent which can be seen from the average of F-measure is 95.88%, the average of precision is 93.75% and the average of recall is 98.37%.