Tourist Destination Recommendations Using Deep Learning
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Personalized tourist attraction recommendations present a challenging problem in intelligent travel planning. Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is a popular tourist destination offering a convenient metro system that enables travelers to plan their journeys easily. Leveraging this infrastructure, this study proposes a deep learning-based model designed to classify tourists into five categories: Nature Tourists, Cultural Tourists, Shopping Tourists, Historical Tourists, and Industrial Tourists. The model employs Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF), utilizing deep neural networks to capture complex, non-linear patterns between users and destinations, surpassing the limitations of traditional matrix factorization methods. It integrates both user-related data, such as tourists’ opinions on destinations, and location-based data from the attractions themselves. To evaluate the model, data were collected from 30 stations along Bangkok's Pink Line, covering the northern part of the city and Nonthaburi province, and 31 tourist attractions along the route. Experimental results demonstrate high classification accuracy across tourism types: 96.26% for Nature Tourists, 80.59% for Cultural Tourists, 93.78% for Historical Tourists, 70.35% for Industrial Tourists, and 97.66% for Shopping Tourists. Furthermore, the study proposes three optimized travel routes tailored to tourist preferences: one for Nature and Cultural Tourists, another for Cultural Tourists, and a third for Historical and Cultural Tourists. By categorizing tourists based on their interests and recommending destinations accordingly, the model supports more informed and personalized travel decision-making. However, this current study serves as a prototype model and can be further applied to problems related to public transportation systems, such as deployment in mobile applications and integration with GPS positioning systems to enhance convenience and accuracy in providing tourist destination recommendations.
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