Development of a smart tourism information chatbot for Mauritius
Conference paper
Chiong, P., Seeam, P. and Seeam, A. 2022. Development of a smart tourism information chatbot for Mauritius. ICONIC 2022: International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications. Mauritius 08 - 09 Dec 2022 Society of Information Technologists and Engineers Ltd. pp. 122-130 https://doi.org/10.59200/ICONIC.2022.013
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Development of a smart tourism information chatbot for Mauritius |
Authors | Chiong, P., Seeam, P. and Seeam, A. |
Abstract | Due to the current COVID-19 situation worldwide, the tourism industry has been heavily impacted worldwide. Chatbots help to minimise the spread of the virus, by limiting physical interaction, whilst help to promote the industry and make available tourism information in an accessible familiar manner. This paper aims to analyse the various aspects of the tourism industry and identify the gaps that need to be addressed in order to improve the customer experiences in Mauritius. The aim was deploy a tourism information chatbot that will provide the necessary information and recommendations to tourists coming to Mauritius and attract potential tourists plan their next trip in a few steps, using off-the-shelf technologies. The main advantage of the developed Chatbot is that is built on off the shelf technologies (Rasa, Telegram, etc), but with the ability to be further extended with APIs. Thus the chatbot developed exhibits a number of innovations for a Tourism chatbot, such as Google search, weather acquisition based on location and COVID-19 statistics. |
Sustainable Development Goals | 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Conference | ICONIC 2022: International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications |
Page range | 122-130 |
ISSN | 1694-4607 |
Electronic | 1694-464X |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9789994908882 |
Publisher | Society of Information Technologists and Engineers Ltd |
Publication dates | |
31 Dec 2022 | |
Online | 09 Mar 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Dec 2022 |
Accepted | 30 Sep 2022 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | |
Copyright Statement | The published paper is reproduced with permission of the conference Mauricon ICONIC 2022 |
Web address (URL) | https://mauricon.org/conferences/index.php/iconic/article/view/13/ |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.59200/ICONIC.2022.013 |
Language | English |
Book title | 2022 International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications |
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