Tourism in Lebanon. (c1998)

Abstract

The work presented herein focuses on the development of a novel spatial tourist-servicing system. It provides its users with a Geographical Information System hypermap navigation information that provides visitors, given the start time and places of interest, with a navigation plan. This plan specifies routes to go through, suggested stops such as hotels in the cities/towns they wish to visit, and associated durations by taking into consideration the traffic along the roads traversed. The production of such a plan is based on the adoption of some shortest path algorithm and traveling salesperson problem approximation reformulated for efficiency of implementation.