Wanderlust : A Personalised Travel Itinerary Recommender

  Tarun Surender Reddy,  Jenila Rakesh Sanghvi,  Deval Paresh Vora,  Pratik Kanani

The project “Wanderlust: A Personalized Travel Itinerary Recommender” uses travelogues and community contributed photos from social media to generate a travel sequence for the user, along with this the metadata (e.g., tags, geographical location, and date taken) mined from the photos is also taken into account for a better response. The approach takes user’s individual Point of Interest (e.g., museums, wildlife, historic sites, beaches, etc.) into consideration for travel recommendation rather than creating the itinerary based on only user’s travel interest (e.g., New York, Las Vegas, Dubai, etc.) which most of the existing systems fail to provide. The project makes use of topical package space model which incorporates hash tags, travel cost spread, time of travel of each point of interest which is then mined to coalesce the gap between optimized travel routes and user’s travel interest. The project uses two main types of social media viz. travelogue and community-contributed photos. For a personalized topical package model and an optimized route, mapping of user inputs with the mined data from social media and with routes to the topical package space is performed. Important and famous routes are given a rank according to the similarity between user package and route package in order to recommend a personalized point of interest sequence to the user. After processing, a route is selected from the top ranked routes to further optimize it according to socially similar users’ travel records. Representative images with other user’s viewpoint and comments and reviews of POIs are shown to offer a more detailed and wide-ranging impression. Our project provides recommendation on the basis of 60 thousand Flickr images uploaded by ample number of users and approximately 20,000 travelogues covering 450 travel POIs in five famous cities, and show its effectiveness.

Keywords- Travel recommendation, Geo-tagged photo, Representative images, Point Of Interest and Social media.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1803015
Page Number(s) - 78-83
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 3 | July 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Tarun Surender Reddy,  Jenila Rakesh Sanghvi,  Deval Paresh Vora,  Pratik Kanani,   "Wanderlust : A Personalised Travel Itinerary Recommender", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 3, pp.78-83, July 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1803015.pdf