Mining Tourism as An Orienteering Problem: A Real-World Data Case

Visiting mines has become the focus of attention for many countries which actually called Mining Tourism. In this paper, the objective is to give an example of a tourist route of real data of Moroccan mine sites. This route crosses several Moroccan regions that have an interesting mines number. We indicate how mining tourism can be modeled as an orienteering problem. We propose combinatorial optimization solving approaches to solve this problem by using the genetic algorithm, and the Ilog Cplex Optimization Solver.