Abstract
Good tourism routes can be designed using changes in the degree of excitement of tourists. Catharsis curves describe such trends and are generally constructed from the perspective of tourism designers. However, as such trends may vary from tourist to tourist, applying catharsis curves to individual tour-plans is difficult. Individual excitement level (IEL) curves present the chronological trend of the excitement experienced by a particular tourist traveling on a certain tourist route. A catharsis curve that is appropriate for various tourists can be generated by collecting multiple IEL curves. However, there is still no efficient method for collecting many IEL curves. Therefore, in our study, we develop an IEL curve generation method that enables simultaneous collection of the generated IEL curves. Furthermore, we verify the proposed method through an experiment in Kyoto. We demonstrate that the proposed method effectively generates IEL curves when the number of times the degree of excitement increases is within the applicable range.
