Tourist Spots Recommendation Method Corresponding to Place Names Appearing in Novel Contents

Abstract

In general, when a place depicted in a novel exists, users may like to visit the site that appears in the story. There is a need to efficiently visit tourist spots in or around the places depicted in the novel when visiting them. When we realize to retrieve appropriate tourist spots in areas in stories, it is possible to increase the number of new sightseeing opportunities for users. This paper presents a tourist spot recommendation method corresponding to place names appearing in novel contents. Our system recommends some actual tourist spots corresponding to a novel selected by a user. The feature of our proposed method is to recommend tourist spots within the range that users can visit in a day, based on the place names that appear in the novel. We apply this method to realize seamless linking media between the creative world like a novel and the real-world.