E-commerce adaptation using ontologies for e-tourism

Abstract

The Internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. Digital business is changed from the recommended usual business using the Internet and e-commerce. E-tourism Software adapted from original e-commerce, ready for creating online reservation/booking. It is the total solution of instant e-commerce for travel 24 hour. E-tourism is a perfect candidate for Semantic Web because it is information-based and depends on the World Wide Web, both as a means of marketing and transaction channel. Ontologies can assist organization, browsing, parametric search, and in general, more intelligent access to online information and services. Ontology-based information retrieval makes it possible to handle the known challenges in connection with Web-based information systems in a more efficient way. This paper discusses some ontological trends that support the growing domain of online tourism. The first part introduces the e-tourism implementation and using ontologies in e-tourism. The second part describes fundamental background of ontologies; definition, modeling, language and etc. The third part discusses the example concepts of existing e-tourism using ontologies and it is a briefly summary on the important e-tourism ontologies. Finally, the last part is the conclusion.