Metaheuristic for personalized trip planning

Abstract

Lviv’s second source of revenue is entertainment. The amount of different points of interest is over a few thousand. Every day Lviv is visited by a large number of tourists. Usually, they visit only the most famous places, that were suggested to them by friends. Someone visits Lviv to try traditional dishes, someone to see interesting places, someone who has a lot of money, and someone who has only a few. Also, one person could visit Lviv for five days and the other only for one. And each of them needs his own plan according to many parameters. Many services simplify planning by giving enough required information in one place, but only a few build path variants for you. What if there would be a service that will create trip plans according to your parameters: such as budget and amount of days to spend in Lviv could it make Lviv as a tourist place more effective and more widely specialized? This is main theme of this work.