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Time apart while together: A smart trip design for group travelers

Liao, Zhixue; Zheng, Weimin; Lin, Zhibin

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Zhixue Liao

Weimin Zheng



Abstract

Family or friends traveling in a group often have different preferences and some of which may conflict with each other. Existing smart tourism recommender systems have not adequately addressed this important issue. This study attempts to tackle the problem by incorporating a “joining and forking” strategy into the system design, which allows members to have certain “time apart” to enjoy their treat separately and “time together” to co-create shared experience and memory. A comparison test was conducted based on a total of 50 groups of tourists in an island destination of Kulangsu in China. The results indicate that our new design outperforms five state-of-the-art baseline methods and realize a good balance between individual experience and co-experiences with group members.

Citation

Liao, Z., Zheng, W., & Lin, Z. (2022). Time apart while together: A smart trip design for group travelers. Annals of Tourism Research, 93, Article 103374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103374

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 7, 2022
Online Publication Date Feb 19, 2022
Publication Date 2022-03
Deposit Date Mar 4, 2022
Publicly Available Date Feb 20, 2024
Journal Annals of Tourism Research
Print ISSN 0160-7383
Publisher Elsevier Masson
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 93
Article Number 103374
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103374
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1212721

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