Interesting Sights Research Articles

TRAVEL AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING CHATBOT RECOMMENDER

Chatbots have gained increasing importance for research and practice with a lot of applications available today including Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri. In this paper, we present the underlying methods and technologies behind a Chatbot for e-tourism that allows people textually communicate with the purpose of booking hotels, planning trips, and asking for interesting sights worth being visit. In particular, we show how model- based reasoning can be used for enhancing user experience during a chat, e.g., in cases where too many possible selections are available or where user preferences are too restricted causing inconsistencies and as a consequence not possible answers to be provided. Besides the underlying foundations, we provide a use case from the intended tourism domain to show how such a model-based chatbot effectively can be used in practice. Key Words: travel recommendation, time sensitivity, recency effect, personalization, social media

Symmetric Kernel-Based Approach for Elliptic Partial Differential Equation

In this work, two globally supported and positive definite radial kernels: generalized inverse multiquadric and linear Laguerre Gaussian radial kernels were used to construct symmetric kernel-based interpolating scheme using Hermite-based symmetric approach for the solution problems involving Hermite's scattered data. Furthermore, two examples on elliptic partial differential equations to illustrate the viability of the symmetric formulation were effectively solved with comparable performance. Results were displayed inform of tables and graphs which present interesting sights for discussions and inference.

Exploring Cultural Tourism Products at Kampung Tanjung Api, Kuantan, Pahang

This purpose of the research was to determine if there were cultural tourism products in Tanjung Api in the district of Kuala Kuantan, in the state of Pahang. To that end, the research process would require the understanding of the community, an analysis of the site, and the availability and conditions of the natural resources of the area. This study was conducted via unstructured interview, observations, and the use of the ethnography approach in the research methodology. The data collection method was guided through the use of five resources measuring instruments: Site Analysis, Community Analysis, Cultural Resources Analysis, Natural Resources Analysis, and Environment Assessment. The findings indicated the availably of tourism products such as the martial art called silat cekak, fishing and crab catching activities, interesting sights at the village such as the wet market and night market, visiting the jetty area, the old British graveyard and the uniquely design mosque.

Google Expeditions: Expanding Classroom Spaces With A Virtual Reality Teaching Tool

Location: JC Room G Field trips are informal learning experiences that foster student engagement. Unfortunately, field trips are rare for many students (if they happen at all). Google Expeditions is a virtual reality (VR) teaching tool that lets users lead or join immersive virtual trips all over the world. It is built for the classroom and small group use. Google Expeditions allows a teacher, acting as a “guide,” to lead classroom-sized groups of “explorers” through collections of 360° and 3D images while pointing out interesting sights along the way. Two notable features are its low cost and accessibility. For example, it can be used with phone or tablet and an affordable Google Cardboard viewer. Also, a class full of devices can be connected over the same WiFi network, or WiFi is not necessary at all if the Expeditions are downloaded in advance. I am currently using the platform as a forum for enhancing students’ knowledge of essential science content areas. As part of my course, students completed two expeditions during our exploration of Earth and space science concepts. In the first, they explored an active volcano and then, later, visited the planet Mars. As part of this demonstration, I will provide an overview of the Google Expeditions platform. I also will share (with student consent) a few videos of my students using Google Expeditions as part of their coursework and their personal reflections of using the app. I will discuss how this experience enriched the content explored within our face-to-face class sessions. Finally, I will share alternative ways educators may use Google Expeditions to enhance and extend students’ content specific understandings.

Cepry w górach. Turystyka masowa w krzywym zwierciadle do lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku

Lowlanders in the mountains: A satirising view of mass tourism until the 1970sThe sense of tourism lies in disinterested move from place to place for purposes relating to entertainment and exploration. In 1841 Thomas Cook organised a train excursion for 570 people in England and thus began the era of collective tourism. In the 20th century mass tourism became passive tourism. Such tourism does not require a lot of physical effort and the only thing tourists expect is appropriate transport, access to interesting sights and infrastructure that will satisfy their basic needs. Another characteristic of this type of tourism is the fact that participants do not have to organise their journeys themselves. It should be stressed, however, that in the 20th century tourism became a substantial social movement of great economic significance. Its essence can be defined in a concise formula: “maximum satisfaction with minimum personal effort”. As a result of economic changes in the interwar period, tourism became increasingly democratic, popular and accessible to the masses. The development of passive tourism, which as time goes by transforms itself into largescale mass tourism, can best be followed in the case of tourism in the Tatras. The Tatras, which were “discovered” quite late, became a tourist destination for an increasing number of people already at the turn of the 20th century. The number of tourists grew rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. However, the first visitors to the Podhale region and Zakopane were not very well prepared for excursions in the mountains. Such visitors were referred by the term “ceper” or lowlander, from the beginning having negative and, if not contemptuous then certainly disrespectful connotations. Its etymology is not known. The ignorance of non-highlanders, i.e. their naivety and inexperience, was quite irritating for the simple and intellectually uncomplicated, but “sharp” and cunning local inhabitants of the Podhale region. That is why lowlanders were often laughed at and ridiculed by them. Throughout the 20th century interesting sociological and cultural changes happened consistently and systematically in tourism. Initially tourists were representatives of the wealthier classes, but owing to the development of collective tourism tourists began to come from many other groups in society. As a result there emerged the problem of anthropogenic impact on the natural environment, which in turn increased the signifi cance of the problem of nature protection.

Manajemen Pengembangan Potensi Pariwisata Daerah Di Desa Wisata Okura Kota Pekanbaru Provinsi Riau

Tourism is one of the development sectors that received government attention to continue to be developed until now, because this sector is considered quite potential for the development of people's economy. The problem is that the number of foreign tourists who enter the city of Pekanbaru tend to decrease in 2011-2016. The lack of tourist attractions in Pekanbaru especially nature tourism, forcing the government of Pekanbaru City to think of new and interesting sights worth developing. The purpose of this study is to identify the potential and condition of tourism, analyzing Planning, Organizing, Actuating and Controlling, and analyzing the supporting and inhibiting factors from the development of regional tourism potential in the Okura Village of Pekanbaru City of Riau Province. The method to be used is qualitative descriptive research. Management of tourism development potential of the region in the Village Tourism Okura Pekanbaru Riau Province has not run optimally. We can see from the lack of supporting infrastructure, resources and finance also become obstacles. And the absence of participation of stakeholders or other tourism developers in Pekanbaru. The recommendation of this research is to provide special fund to focus on development in Okura Tourism Village. Empowering human resources in Okura Tourism Village by providing various coaching and training, upcoming experts to provide special knowledge to the community in Okura Village. Increase cooperation with private parties or parties that would help the development of Okura Tourism Village so that it can create good coordination between the parties.

Decision Support System For Selecting Bali Tourist Attractions Using The PROMETHEE Method

Tourism is currently very potential to be developed as a source of local income by providing information both online and offline to the community so that regional income increases. Bali is one of the tourist destinations in Indonesia which is visited by many local and foreign tourists. The island of Bali has many interesting sights consisting of natural attractions, royal festivals, culinary tours, traditional markets, and museums. There are many criteria that must be considered, so through this recommendation system, tourists can find out what places are in Bali they will visit. One of the problems of decision making with many criteria and attributes in the selection of attractions is to provide detailed decisions that refer to the scale of weight possessed. Decision support systems provide priority results of attractions that are suitable for every traveler. Traveling is very important because with tourism we can eliminate fatigue due to activity during the day. The selection of the right tourist attraction also affects this, so it is necessary to choose the right tourist attraction. This study focused on the application of multi-attribute decision making (MADM) to decision support systems (SPK) using preferred organizational methods for enrichment and evaluation (Promeethe). When a traveler fills out a questionnaire, he must be consistent with the answers to get the best results based on his willingness and characteristics. This research uses descriptive analysis method that presents a summary of the results of surveys and interviews of tourists who want to choose Bali tourist attractions according to costs, security, natural beauty, facilities, and infrastructure and location.

Ćwiczenie umysłu O dwóch trawelogach Kazimiery Alberti

There are two modes of establishing a relationship with space. One is, partly general and partly idiosyncratic, manner in which the past makes itself manifest in the present of the life of the human individual. The other is a most profound and intimate connection with a place which is possible when we begin to feel situated in a given space, i.e. when standard historical and aesthetic lines of connecting prove inadequate.L’anima della Calabria (1950) and Segreti di Puglia (1951), two travelogues in a series of Italia celebre e sconosciuta, explore the two distinctly different regions of Italy investigating the perception of landscape, its rootedness in history and mythology as well as various practices of everyday life they have generated over centuries. Thus, the region becomes more than a series of interesting sights and historical monuments baedekers record and advertise for tourists. Instead, we deal with deconstruction of such ready-made cultural products and, in the effort of “mental exercise”, we not only transit through but are also situated in places which reveal their provisional, metamorphic character, their unfinishedness, becoming thus a challenge to our moral sense. Hence, exercising memory and mind, allenamento della memoria e della mente morphs into allenamento morale e sociale.

Ruang Budaya “Barikan” Di Desa Sumber Polaman Lawang Jawa Timur

Lawang city has many interesting sights, one of which is the source Polaman Baths, located in Sumber Polaman. In the Village of Polaman there are some cultural activities that make up the cultural space. Local communities do village ritual ceremonies to honor ancestors founders of the village as well as a petition to God for the prosperity of rural communities Polaman. The cultural activities are known as cultural ritual barikan. Time and Barikan ritual space in the traditional settlement pattern forming Polaman rural communities. The research method in this study is descriptive-qualitative method with an etnographic approach. This study aims to identify patterns formed by the settlement of the cultural activities that make up the cultural space. By knowing the settlement pattern is formed it will be determined the shape of preservation suitable for spaces used settlements and cultural preservation barikan itself. Keywords: cultural space, barikan traditional ceremonies, village Source Polaman

The Evaluation of the Impact of Tourism on Residents: The Case of Taormina

This study aims to explore residents’ attitudes toward tourism and how these attitudes could be influenced by factors such as of one’s subjective sense of well-being and personal satisfaction with life. The study’s empirical geographical context is Taormina, a Sicilian community with high touristic frequency. Taormina is a popular resort town in Sicily with many interesting sights and attractions. The town’s historical heritage also encloses Sicily’s history: Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, the French, and the Spanish all came to the island, saw, conquered, and left (Oktay, 2006). Today, Taormina lives on tourism. Visitors flock from all the world to see its Greek-Roman theatre, to amble along its perfectly preserved Medieval streets (Roccuzzo, 2001). Our study involved 215 residents, the measurement scales used for the research were the Tourism Impact Attitude Scale-TIAS (Lankford, Howard, 1994), the Satisfaction with Life Scale-SWLS (Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985) and the affective and evaluative attitude of the residents towards the tourism phenomenon (Osgood, Suci & Tannenbaum, 1957). Results show the measure of influence of residents’ satisfaction with life and the impact on their attitudes regarding economic and personal tourism. The results suggest that there is average life satisfaction compensates in part for the relationship shown between TIAS and Attitude Toward Global by the residents of Taormina. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2s1p88

The coordination dynamics of mobile conjugate reinforcement.

What we know about infant learning and memory is founded largely on systematic studies by the late Carolyn Rovee-Collier (1942-2014) and her associates of a phenomenon called mobile conjugate reinforcement. Experiments show that when a ribbon is attached from a 3-month-old infant's foot to a mobile suspended overhead the baby quickly realizes it can make the mobile move. The mobile, which offers interesting sights and sounds, responds conjugately to the baby's vigorous kicks which increase in rate by a factor of 3-4. In this paper, using the concepts, methods and tools of coordination dynamics, we present a theoretical model which reproduces the experimental observations of Rovee-Collier and others and predicts a number of additional features that can be experimentally tested. The model is a dynamical system consisting of three equations, one for the baby's leg movements, one for the jiggling motion of the mobile and one for the functional coupling between the two. A key mechanism in the model is positive feedback which is shown to depend sensitively on bifurcation parameters related to the infant's level of attention and inertial properties of the mobile. The implications of our model for the dynamical (and developmental) origins of agency are discussed.

Education of Tourist Guides: Case of Croatia

In the last few decades tourism has developed into a complex service industry. Local destinations have to offer only their best in order to satisfy tourists. In that respect, tourist guides represent an important part of the tourism industry. Local tourist guides should represent the local community and show the most important and the most interesting sights of a given destination. In order to become a tourist guide one must obtain proper education and an appropriate certificate. Taking into account the tourist market needs and incoming tourist groups, tourist guides should be adequately prepared. The purpose of this study is to define the importance of education within the tourism industry and particularly tourist guides. The educational program should provide the necessary knowledge and practices in order to ensure a high quality of future employees in the tourism sector. The education program, the institutions where the program can be attended as well as the criteria for exam are prescribed by law. Croatia is a tourism-oriented country and has an increasing number of tourist arrivals. The total contribution of tourism in the GDP is around 30%. It can therefore be concluded that tourism is a very important industry for Croatia. The present research is carried out by the case study method. The main findings of this study are showing a strong disagreement between the theoretical findings and given government and organizational efforts in the education program. There are several possible reasons for this situation: belated development, an inadequate approach to tourism development etc. Recommendations for further studies are focused on finding reasons for the current situation and forming suitable procedures to overcome these limitations, in order to form a high quality education and ensure high quality service of local tourist guiding.

Watch the hands: infants can learn to follow gaze by seeing adults manipulate objects

Infants gradually learn to share attention, but it is unknown how they acquire skills such as gaze-following. Deák and Triesch (2006) suggest that gaze-following could be acquired if infants learn that adults' gaze direction is likely to be aligned with interesting sights. This hypothesis stipulates that adults tend to look at things that infants find interesting, and that infants could learn by noticing this tendency. We tested the plausibility of this hypothesis through video-based micro-behavioral analysis of naturalistic parent-infant play. The results revealed that 3- to 11-month-old infants strongly preferred watching caregivers handle objects. In addition, when caregivers looked away from their infant they tended to look at their own object-handling. Finally, when infants looked toward the caregiver while she was looking at her own hands, the infant's next eye movement was often toward the caregiver's object-handling. In this way infants receive adequate naturalistic input to learn associations between their parent's gaze direction and the locations of interesting sights.

Where Do Tourists Go? Visualizing and Analysing the Spatial Distribution of Geotagged Photography

Visualizing the geographical positions of photographs taken by tourists is a promising method to measure tourist activity in urban spaces. Most photo-sharing sites on the Internet offer the possibility of “geotagging” photos, resulting in geographical information retrievable by databases using the application programming interface (API) of such sites. These data sets can be visualized on maps or digital globes, which make the correlations of the photo density and the geographical objects of a given area expressive. It is possible to differentiate pictures taken by locals from those of visitors by examining the temporal distribution of a specific user's photos. Resulting maps revealed interesting correlations between the tourist attractions of the area and the number of photos taken there. In the case study of Budapest tourists took photos only in the areas around main tourist attractions. In contrast, locals also photographed recreational spaces or interesting sights not advertised for tourists. The development of recreational infrastructure is also visible in the case of the most recent projects.

Extreme navigation: introduction to the special issue

Sophisticated mobile devices with high-quality location sensing technologies are ubiquitous in society. These devices can determine their location and orientation to an accuracy of a few metres. However, the interfaces to such devices are still firmly rooted in the techniques developed for car-based navigation. The user is presented with a map and a dot, or asked to enter a destination, and the device calculates the most efficient route to that location, perhaps with specific written or spoken directions. Whilst these turn-by-turn navigation systems work well for driving, where the user is likely to have a clear destination in mind, they are less use for the myriad of other navigation and wayfinding scenarios that humans undertake on foot. The papers presented in this special issue seek to move navigation beyond simple turn-by-turn directions by embracing the vagaries, vagueness and playfulness that humans often exhibit when navigating on foot. One common theme through the papers presented is the role of undirected or unguided navigation. Magnusson et al. consider how low-fidelity tactile feedback can be employed to indicate the direction of features and facilities in the environment as the user moves his or her device around. Here, the user may have a destination but does not care about the length or time taken to reach it. Specifically, they investigate how different target sizes and signal quality affect the performance of users trying to locate those targets. Their goal is to develop guidelines to allow ‘plug and play’ inclusion of low-fidelity feedback for navigation. Robinson et al. extend upon this work by developing ways to allow these simple directional cues to be adapted to help route users around obstacles when they come into contact with them. By increasing the angular width of feedback, Robinson et al. are able to support users in navigating to a location but allow the user to take a number of different routes, depending on their choices and preferences at the time, to reach that goal. In addition, Robinson et al. found that considering the density and volume of geo-located social media allowed users to be presented with more diverse options for navigation. Whilst both Magnusson et al. and Robinson et al. consider more practical navigation towards an end point, irrespective of the actual route taken to get there, VazquezAlvarez et al. consider more artistic aspects of navigation, augmenting the physical world with geo-located sound. Their auditory sound garden seeks to embrace the wandering behaviour of pedestrians by attracting and pulling them towards interesting sights and features in a public park. They found that the application of spatialised audio provided for greater immersion in the environment and understanding about park features that would otherwise be ignored by pedestrians. In contrast to these unstructured navigation scenarios, Sarjakoski et al. have developed techniques to allow for successful navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. They note that whilst landmark-based navigation (such as discussed by the three previous papers) is important, what constitutes a landmark is not clear. This is especially the case for outdoor hiking navigation, where landmarks are few and far between. Their work provides an important step on classifying the importance of Supported by EU FP7 Project No. 224675 ‘‘Haptimap’’.

Emergence of Mirror Neurons in a Model of Gaze Following

Gaze following is the ability to redirect one's gaze to the location where another agent is looking. We present a computational model of how human infants or other agents may acquire gaze following by learning to predict the locations of interesting sights from the looking behavior of other agents through reinforcement learning. The model accounts for many findings about the development of gaze following in human infants. During learning, the model develops pre-motor representations that exhibit many properties characteristic of mirror neurons, but they are specific to looking behaviors. The existence of such a new class of mirror neurons is the main prediction of our model. The model also offers a parsimonious account of how these and possibly other mirror neurons may acquire their special response properties. In this account, visual representations of other agents' actions become associated with pre-motor neurons that represent the intention to perform corresponding actions. The model also demonstrates how this development may be obstructed in autism spectrum disorder, giving rise to specific physiological and anatomical differences in the mirror system.

Differences in How 12- and 24-Month-Olds Interpret the Gaze of Adults.

This study examined the hypothesis that toddlers interpret an adult's head turn as evidence that the adult was looking at something, whereas younger infants interpret gaze based on an expectancy that an interesting object will be present on the side to which the adult has turned. Infants of 12 months and toddlers of 24 months were first shown that an adult head turn to the side predicted the activation of a remote-controlled toy on that side of the room. After this connection had been demonstrated, participants were assigned to 2 conditions. In the head turn condition the toys were removed but the adult continued to produce head turns to the side. In the toy condition the adult stopped turning but the toys continued to be activated when the participant turned toward them. Results showed that, compared to 12-month-olds, 24-month-olds were more likely to continue to turn to the side when the adult continued to turn even though there was no longer anything of interest to see. In contrast, compared to 24-month-olds, 12-month-olds were, if anything, more likely to continue to turn to the side in the condition in which the adult stopped turning. The latter result was replicated in a condition in which the activation of the toy was not contingent on the child's own head turn. These results imply that the meaning of gaze following may change significantly over the 2nd year of life. For 12-month-olds, gaze is a useful predictor of where interesting sights may occur. In contrast, for 24-month-olds, gaze may be a signal that the adult is looking at something.

Les circulations historiques du guide : de l’ailleurs au voyageur

The historical circulation ol guidebooks : erom the place to visit elsewhere to the traveller. The term “guidebook”, which was already used as far back as the 12th century, designates objects, texts and usages which vary according to the centuries. The historians group them together into classical and romantic periods. Plagiarism, updating and republishing, laying stress on interesting sights and on the pleasure of the traveller and then of the tourist are permanent features. On the other hand, collections, the diversification of destinations and of the ways of travelling, the interest taken in the inner meaning of the journey, the coding of the object through colours, dimensions or type lead to the romantic guidebook. In line with this legacy of texts and objects, contemporary guidebooks tend to care more about the traveller than about the visited place elsewhere : we have changed from the guidebook preparing the traveller for a place to discover elsewhere to the guidebook adapting the place elsewhere to the traveller, supposed to know what he (or she) is looking for.

The Mythical Man-Month: After 20 years

The plane droned through the night toward LaGuardia. Clouds and darkness veiled all interesting sights. The document I was studying was pedestrian. I was not, however, bored. The stranger sitting next to me was reading The Mythical Man-Month, and I was waiting to see if by word or sign he would react. Finally as we taxied toward the gate, I could wait no longer: "How is that book? Do you recommend it?" “Hmph! Nothing in it I didn’t know already.”

Children of Psychiatrists and Other Psychotherapists

The author writes at the end of this book that is no easy or definitive conclusion to what began as a work of curiosity. This book is, in a sense, a journey that we share with the child of a psychoanalyst and a clinical social worker who, like many other children of psychotherapists, seeks to penetrate the secret world of his parents' work as well as to explore how he himself and others like him have been influenced by that world. His search begins with the question, Are common features to be found among the children of psychotherapists... that stem from different manners of behaving and understanding behavior? His initial response is, There appears that there are. The author, an accomplished writer, is an articulate guide, pointing out both the interesting sights and the rocky terrain of a world that is a source of curiosity not only for the