Kyoto Sightseeing Map 2.0 for User-Experience Oriented Tourism

We present Kyoto sightseeing map 2.0, a web-based application, for user-experience oriented tourism through discovering and exploring sightseeing resources from User Generated Content (UGC). It focuses on adapting the massive content analysis of information from UGC, to give an additional source of information from user experience to travelers in their search information process. It decreases and bridges the information gap of sightseeing resources, especially Point of Interest (POIs), caused by the map provided by government or tourism firms from the perspective of publicity and marketing. On the one hand, Kyoto sightseeing map 2.0 offers the aesthetics quality results of photos taken in tourist spots over time in Kyoto based on the UGC by aesthetics quality assessment (AQA) with Multi-level Spatially-Pooled (MLSP) to tourists. On the other hand, the user can also use two sets of POI photos generated by the user data displayed on the map as a reference. Our application, for user-experience oriented tourism, help them make well-informed decisions of their trip based on UGC.