# OPTORER: A Dynamic Routing and Touring Service for Indoors and Outdoor Tours

## TL;DR

OPTORER is a new service that creates personalized indoor and outdoor tours in Attica, Greece, using smartphones and wearables to enhance the tourist experience.

## Contribution

The paper introduces OPTORER, a dynamic touring service combining indoor and outdoor routes with personalized, adaptive features.

## Key findings

- OPTORER offers innovative and thematic routes combining indoor and outdoor points of interest.
- The service prioritizes user experience, safety, and social welfare through dynamic optimization.
- It uses smartphones and wearables to deliver an end-to-end solution with an orchestration platform.

## Abstract

This paper introduces a new routing and touring service both for outdoor and indoor places of touristic and cultural interest designed to be used in the wider area of Attica, Greece. This service is the result of the work performed in OPTORER (OPTORER: OPtimal rouTing and explOration of touRistic and cultural arEas of interest within Attica given personalized adaptive preferences, promoted underlying purpose, and interactive experience), project, and it aspires to offer a range of innovative and thematic routes to several specified points of interest in the selected area of Attica, encouraging the combination of indoor and outdoor routes in a single tour. The aim is to optimize the user experience while promoting specific, user-centric features, with safety and social welfare being a priority for every designed tour, resulting in enhancing the touristic experience in the area. Using a common smartphone device, as well as common wearable devices (i.e., smartwatches), the OPTORER service will provide an end-to-end solution by developing the algorithms and end-user applications, together with an orchestration platform responsible for managing, operating, and executing the service that produces and presents to the end user results derived from solving dynamically complex optimization problems.