Towards a knowledge management system for tourism based on the semantic web technology

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to examine the importance of knowledge management and semantic web in tourism. We will primarily aim to present the concepts of knowledge management, knowledge management systems, semantic web and ontologies. We also provide the importance of knowledge management in tourism, which gave the real benefits to be derived from the use semantic-web based ontologies for travelers. Finally, the last part is devoted to present tourism ontology for Morocco and architecture of the KMS we conceived.