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Turisbook: Social Network of Tourism with Geographical Information

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Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research (WSKS 2010)

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This article presents the social network of tourism Turisbook. This social network allows sharing information and opinions about worldwide travel destinations. It incorporates a geo-location system of points on a map, so that user can search quickly and easily tourist points in a given area. The system allows users to upload their own tourist points with associated information and photos. In this manner, the system feeds with user contributions, allowing discovering places that usually do not appear in traditional guidebooks.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá, Ctra Barcelona km 33.6, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Eva García, Antonio García, Luis de-Marcos & José-Ramón Hilera

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  1. Eva García
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  1. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Adrian Ziderman

  4. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Alan Roulstone

  5. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  6. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Jonathan B. Imber

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García, E., García, A., de-Marcos, L., Hilera, JR. (2010). Turisbook: Social Network of Tourism with Geographical Information. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16318-0_20

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