Abstract:

When applied to tourism, a recommendation system can select and recommend appropriate toplisted tourist places, from abundant data sources. Today in the field of the tourism industry, recommendation systems and related information technologies are one of the most widespread and promising applications of IT. Literature indicates that there are many reasons for having a recommendation system, however, the most important reasons for using a modern recommendation system is to make travelers life and choice options easier in the context of providing more and reliable information about their selected tourist place. This paper proposes a tag-based recommendation system approach for tourists visiting Saudi Arabia. This proposed approach of a tag-based recommendation system is aimed at helping visitors to find a list of interesting and best places that are likely to gain their positive attention.