A Ranking Based Combined Approach for Recommending Travel Packages

Authors(4) :-N. R. Rejin Paul, G. Karpagam, R. Sindhuja, S. Yamini

The online travel information imposes an increasing challenge for tourists who have to choose from a large number of available travel packages for satisfying their personalized needs. To that end, in this system, there is a need to first analyze the characteristics of the existing travel packages and develop a tourist-area-season topic (TAST) model. This TAST model can represent travel packages and tourists by different topic distributions, where the topic extraction is conditioned on both the tourists and the intrinsic features (i.e., locations, travel seasons) of the landscapes. Then, based on this topic model representation, we propose a cocktail approach to generate the lists for personalized travel package recommendation. Furthermore, we extend the TAST model to the tourist-relation-area-season topic (TRAST) model for capturing the latent relationships among the tourists in each travel group. Finally, we evaluate the TAST model, the TRAST model, and the cocktail recommendation approach on the real-world travel package data. Experimental results show that the TAST model can effectively capture the unique characteristics of the travel data and the cocktail approach is, thus, much more effective than traditional recommendation techniques for travel package recommendation. Also, by considering tourist relationships, the TRAST model can be used as an effective assessment for travel group formation.

Authors and Affiliations

N. R. Rejin Paul
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Velammal Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
G. Karpagam
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Velammal Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
R. Sindhuja
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Velammal Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
S. Yamini
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Velammal Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Tast,Trast,Cocktail, Ranking

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 1 | Issue 2 | March-April 2015
Date of Publication : 2015-04-25
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 460-466
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET1522133
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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N. R. Rejin Paul, G. Karpagam, R. Sindhuja, S. Yamini , " A Ranking Based Combined Approach for Recommending Travel Packages, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp.460-466, March-April-2015. Citation Detection and Elimination     |     
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