Individualized tourism recommendation based on self-attention

PLoS One. 2022 Aug 25;17(8):e0272319. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272319. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Although the era of big data has brought convenience to daily life, it has also caused many problems. In the field of scenic tourism, it is increasingly difficult for people to choose the scenic spot that meets their needs from mass information. To provide high-quality services to users, a recommended tourism model is introduced in this paper. On the one hand, the tourism system utilises the users' historical interactions with different scenic spots to infer their short- and long-term favorites. Among them, the users' short-term demands are modelled through self-attention mechanism, and the proportion of short- and long-term favorites is calculated using the Euclidean distance. On the other hand, the system models the relationship between multiple scenic spots to strengthen the item relationship and further form the most relevant tourist recommendations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Tourism*

Grants and funding

This work is supported by the Science and Technology Research and Development Project of Jilin Province (20180201086SF) and the Joint fund of Science & Technology Department of Liaoning Province and State Key Laboratory of Robotics, China(Grant No. 2020-KF-22-08). All authors are the recipients of the funding awards.