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Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-Based Tourism Support System

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Intelligence for Future Cities (CUPUM 2023)

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In Japan, distributed travel is recently promoted in order to prevent both the problems associated with overtourism and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in urban tourist destinations. The present study developed a tourism support system by integrating web-geographic information system (Web-GIS), recommendation system and social network services (SNS). The system has two unique key functions (the functions of tourism congestion display and tourist attraction recommendation) in order to promote distributed travel during the sightseeing planning stage. The system was operated for six weeks targeting Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The evaluation results for the system performance revealed that the function of tourism congestion display can promote tourism that takes congestion periods and areas into consideration. It also showed that the function of tourist attraction recommendation can provide users with novel tourist attraction recommendations and achieve high levels of intent to visit recommended tourist attractions.

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In the operation of the tourism support system to promote distributed travel adopting GIS and recommendation system, and the web questionnaire survey of the present study, enormous cooperation was received from those in Japan. We would like to take this opportunity to gratefully acknowledge them.

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu City, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Yudai Kato & Kayoko Yamamoto

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  1. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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  3. Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland

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  4. City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Kato, Y., Yamamoto, K. (2023). Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-Based Tourism Support System. In: Goodspeed, R., Sengupta, R., Kyttä, M., Pettit, C. (eds) Intelligence for Future Cities. CUPUM 2023. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31746-0_14

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