Overview of the business model for an electronic tourism market
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Consider the case as we use Web search services such as Google or Yahoo. In each
of the previous scenarios, appropriate keywords are critical to extract good search
results. Although desired keywords may be selected, limitations of a keyword-based
search cannot be overcome.
Ontology. Design. for.Tourism. Business
It is necessary to build ontologies to get answers for the tourist in the two scenarios.
Figure 3 shows some of the major classes and properties representing the relations
among them in the tourism domain. For example, both GroupTour and IndividualTour
are subclasses of the class Tour and the class SchoolJourney is that of the
class Grouptour. There are classes of concepts which constitute a hierarchy with
multiple inheritances such as the class BusinessTour.and the class KnapsackTour
as depicted in Figure 3.
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