Intelligent decision support system for tourism destination choice: A preliminary study

Abstract

The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "who travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited". This paper describes a research and development of an intelligent decision support system for tourism destination choice. A prototype system called tourism advisory system (TAS) is proposed to assist tourists in planning their travel using fuzzy logic approach. Selected practitioners in tourism industry and potential users will be invited to participate in testing system to evaluate the performance of the system. This research is rated highly on the effectiveness and the usability of the system.