Smart Tourism
Vision: Tourism helps create jobs, boost a city's economy but if not planned well, can ruin its environment. Smart tourism promises to help promote tourism responsibly.
CityGo: Sustainable Tourism for Cities around the World
What do we do:
What do we do:
- We are building a family of novel, standards- based, online applications for promoting and hosting tourist events while minimizing its impact to city operations, e.g., traffic
- The capabilities span collection of high-level events from different organizers along with their expected people impact, its dissemination to promote discovery by interested future travellers, and an impact analysis for better, operational, traffic management.
Intended beneficiaries: The solution offers benefits to citizens, travellers, city managers and businesses and can be rolled out to cities around the world.
Intended beneficiaries: The solution offers benefits to citizens, travellers, city managers and businesses and can be rolled out to cities around the world.
Apps
Apps
- Bharat Khoj app:
- promoting tourism sustainably in India in the absence of city service standards by giving tools to visitors to estimate experience and city to manage them available and running on IBM Bluemix for India; gets tourist event data from crowdsourcing and performs impact analysis using open data, simulation and policies.
- Online web app: http://bharat-khoj-starter.mybluemix.net/participate.html
- Click here for video
- City Concierge app:
- promoting tourism for cities in Europe and USA with CitySDK and Open 311 standards by giving tools to visitors to estimate experience overcoming multi-lingual challenges; Runner up in EU CitySDK App competition. Ran on IBM Bluemix and AWS
- Click here for video; App details: http://www.slideshare.net/biplavsrivastava/composing-web-apis-state-of-the-art-and-mobile-implications
- Competition details: http://dev.hel.fi/node/199
Papers
- Srikanth Tamilselvam, Biplav Srivastava, Vishalaksh Aggarwal, Data-Based Promotion of Tourist Events with Minimal Operational Impact. IJCAI 2016: 4270-4271 [Open Data, Tourism]
- Vishalaksh Aggarwal, Biplav Srivastava, Srikanth Tamilselvam, Towards a General Framework for Data Driven City Comparison, COMAD, Pune, India, March 2016. [Open Data, City Analytics]
Talks
- Talk titled "Open Innovation for Boosting Economy with Tourism", at workshop on Open Government Data and Smart City at SciDataCon 2014, New Delhi on 3rd November 2014.
- Keynote Talk titled "Big, Open, Data and Semantics for Real-World Application Near You" at 1st Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering (AMECSE 2014), at Cairo, Egypt on 21 October 2014 to an audience of 250-275 participants.