Travel and tourism industry applications and usage
Abstract
Social media has transformed the world of travel and tourism today. We use sites including Travelopod, Expedia, Orbitz, Kayak, and other sites in multiple languages to look at tourism, deals, places to see, and how to best use the travel time. The foundational aspect of all these sites and their usage comes from the world population that has evolved with social media and mobile phones in a span of 15 years. This chapter will look at how to build a big data application that can be leveraged as the sites do with their data. We will include a discussion or an interview of some of the vendors and their goals accomplished in this journey, the risks and pitfalls they faced, and how they evolved ...
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