Abstract
As the number of individual tourists increases, Web browsing is becoming one of the methods to gather tourism information such as restaurants and accommodations. We can distinguish two types of tourism information. First, there is objective information such as address and telephone number. Then, we can talk about subjective information, such as evaluation given by an individual. While, browsing tourism information on major sightseeing sites, these sites usually have a lot of advertisements and there are only a few candid opinions of the users. Further, the individuals post various articles on the Weblog, each one in their own way by subjective viewpoint. However, it is difficult to search between a lot of subjective data for necessary and valuable tourism information. The purpose of our work was to gather objective information and subjective evaluation about tourism contents, and to develop a user adaptive tourism information website using a recommender system. Moreover, an exclusive weblog was developed as an interface for tourism information gathering. In this paper, we present a prototype of the system applying restaurant information.
