Publication: Short reports in the AIR project

As part of the project “AI-based Recommender for Sustainable Tourism (AIR)”, the DI Tourismusforschung of the FH Westküste University of Applied Sciences has been working on digital visitor management with a large number of nationwide partners from research and practice since the beginning of 2022.

Several milestones have already been reached and important interim results achieved in the course of the project to date. In the publicly accessible and free AIR Zenodo community, these findings are regularly published for all interested parties in the form of short reports. The spectrum of topics covered so far ranges from theoretical findings such as the representation of frequencies and occupancy rates (especially of parking spaces) or the perception of crowding to the results of guest surveys conducted in the use cases. In the two current publications of DI Tourismusforschung (in cooperation with Dirk Schmücker, NIT Kiel), the possible data sources for digital visitor management are presented on the one hand and the suitability of location measurements for digital visitor management is discussed on the other.

What is AIR?
As part of the project, digital options are being developed to avoid the temporary congestion of travel and excursion destinations through targeted visitor information and to identify suitable alternatives. The aim is to achieve the equalization of visitor flows with the help of a recommender so that a contribution can be made to sustainable tourism development. Funding for the joint project from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) runs until the end of 2024.

Please also visit the project websites with lots more information at https://di-tourismusforschung.de/de/details-zu-projekte/ai-basierter-recommender-fuer-nachhaltigen-tourismus-air and www.air-tourism.de.

If you have any questions, please contact Eric Horster.