A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism

TL;DR

This paper proposes a semantic grid framework for e-Tourism that integrates various enabling technologies to support flexible, automated, and collaborative tourism services, addressing current fragmentation in the field.

Contribution

It introduces a unified semantic grid framework for e-Tourism, detailing architecture, ontologies, semantic reconciliation, and implementation, advancing the integration of multiple technologies.

Findings

Framework supports flexible automation and collaboration

Implementation demonstrates practical viability

Addresses integration of semantic Web, Web services, and agents

Abstract

With increasing complexity of tourism business models and tasks, there is a clear need of the next generation e-Tourism infrastructure to support flexible automation, integration, computation, storage, and collaboration. Currently several enabling technologies such as semantic Web, Web service, agent and grid computing have been applied in the different e-Tourism applications, however there is no a unified framework to be able to integrate all of them. So this paper presents a promising e-Tourism framework based on emerging semantic grid, in which a number of key design issues are discussed including architecture, ontologies structure, semantic reconciliation, service and resource discovery, role based authorization and intelligent agent. The paper finally provides the implementation of the framework.