Abstract
Customer recommendations have proved to boost sales, increase customer satisfaction and improve user experience, making recommender systems an important tool for businesses. While recommendations of items such as products or movies, when browsing online, are heavily examined and several recommendation algorithms and systems are developed, still recommendation systems for events present unique challenges. This becomes even more challenging when recommending active sport events to users, due to inherent restrictions and limitations. This paper presents a context aware recommender system developed and integrated to the ST76 web platform, which enables for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, to provide recommendations of users that are more likely to participate in an upcoming active sport event. Also, we showcase the importance of the ST76 platform and recommender system for sports tourism, through the analysis of the economic impact of an active sport event hosted on the platform.
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Cyprus Tourism Portals: http://www.visitcyprus.com, http://www.heartcyprus.com/.
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Web-based Holidays Booking Platforms: https://www.pamediakopes.gr/cy/, https://www.topkinisis.com.
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Sports Tourism Website: www.runbis.com.
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Cyprus Events Website: https://www.cyprusevents.net/.
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Worlds Marathons: http://www.worldsmarathons.com/.
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Sports Traveler: https://www.sportstraveler.net/.
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Sport Event Websites or Web Platforms: http://www.roadtrips.com/, http://www.sportstravelandtours.com/, http://www.sportstraveltours.com/, http://www.globalsports.travel/ and https://gulliverstravel.co.uk.
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Field Sports Travel: http://www.fieldsportstravel.com/.
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Joblib Python Library: https://joblib.readthedocs.io/.
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ST76_RS Questionnaire: https://forms.gle/d8Ah7VbeJLuQA3689 (EN version + 19 offline responses), https://forms.gle/6NTYjk8FXuDbBDxcA (GR version).
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System Specification Deliverable: http://mdl.frederick.ac.cy/SportsTraveler76/Main/Results.
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The work presented in this manuscript is performed based on the research funding received from the European Regional Development Fund and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus as part of the Research in Startups SportsTraveler76 project (START-UPS/0618/0049–RESTART 2016–2020).
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Achilleos, A., Konstantinides, A., Alexandrou, R., Markides, C., Zikouli, E., Papadopoulos, G.A. (2021). A Web Platform and a Context Aware Recommender System for Active Sport Events. In: Krieger, U.R., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C., Fahrnberger, G. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1404. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75004-6_13
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