Practical Application of Tour Plan Mining System Tour Miner - Web Application and Case Study -

We have been researching and developing the system called “Tour Miner” which creates a tour plan suitable for individual preferences or interests from the information accumulated in SNS. In our previous research, we proposed a method to extract travel records from check-in information shared on the SNS, “Foursquare”, and constructed a database of travel records. In addition, we also proposed a method to select travel records matching individual preferences or interests from the database. In this paper, we developed “Tour Miner” as a web application based on the assumption of actual use by applying the methods and results proposed by our research team in the previous research. The web application can select travel records which match individual preferences or interests. We then released our web application to the public at the special exhibition at Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum for 1 month. According to the feedback from 425 users who used our Web Application, the selected travel records matched with their interests, and those travel records were useful in their travel plans preparation.