Supporting Tourism Culture via CBR

Enrico Blanzieri1 and Alessandro Ebranati2

1 ITC-IRST

via Sommarive 18, 1-38050 Povo, Italy
blanzier@irst.itc.it
2 ITC-IRST and Universit di Trento

via Inama 5,I-38100 Trento, Italy
imbra@irst.itc.it



Abstract. We present COOL-TOUR, a WEB-based Case Based Reasoning 
system for tourism culture support. Its main goal is to build the
community of tourists that are interested in a geographic area. Building
communities is relevant for e-commerce and CBR can support it effectively. 
Users interact with the system entering tours for accessing auxiliary 
services. The tours are stored in a case base and other users can retrieve 
and adapt them. The community is built around these stored experiences. 
The implemented version of COOLTOUR deals with Mountain
Bike tours, providing a sketch-based interaction interface. The spatial
data similarity assessment is based on spatial indexing.
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