KR20200048381A - System and method for providing itinerary recommendation services - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing an itinerary recommendation service and a method using the same, which can automatically recommend a detailed schedule. The system for providing an itinerary recommendation service comprises: a travel destination information management unit to acquire travel destination information including travel region information for a travel destination to be traveled by a user, a date to travel the travel destination, and travel type information for the travel destination; a visiting place information management unit to acquire visiting place information to be visited at the travel destination by the user and construct schedule information including information of required time, start locations, end locations, and schedules for the visiting place information; a similar schedule search unit to search for a similar schedule corresponding to the travel destination information from a travel information database; a candidate time slot list generation unit to generate a candidate time slot list which is a list for candidate time slots in which a visiting place included in the schedule information can be traveled based on the travel destination information and the schedule information of the user; and a candidate time display unit to display candidate times included in the generated candidate time slot list on a user terminal, and construct an itinerary in accordance with a candidate time selected by the user.

Description

System and method for providing travel itinerary recommendation services {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ITINERARY RECOMMENDATION SERVICES}

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a travel itinerary recommendation service, a system capable of providing a recommendation service so that a user can efficiently plan a schedule for a region or a city tourist attraction when a user visits a specific region or city, and It's about how.

As the quality of life has improved, the number of people traveling at home and abroad has increased significantly in recent years. When traveling to many cities or countries for a relatively long period of time, how to determine the route of travel and where and when to visit the city included in the defined route. Deciding is a very important matter.

When planning a trip to a particular city, many travelers worry a lot about when to experience the desired travel itinerary (tourist, gourmet, or tour). For example, when you go to Paris on a honeymoon and want to go to the Montparnasse Tower, a kind of observation deck, you have to decide whether you should go in the morning, in the afternoon, or in the evening. Most of them are helped by asking how newlyweds who traveled to Paris during a similar travel period to the user did it, and the user himself should search for information on the Internet and check the desired information here and there. . On the other hand, if you plan to go to the Montage pharmacy in Paris and purchase French cosmetics, for example, it is preferable to visit at a time when the movement route of the user can be minimized rather than considering a specific time zone. There is a problem that must specify a specific time.

On the other hand, according to Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2014-0046792, a predetermined travel route is provided to a user so that the user can select it, and guides the travel schedule such as transportation and accommodation reservation for the selected travel route. The method is disclosed. However, this prior art has a limitation in that it merely provides a user with a predetermined travel route and provides information related to the travel route, and does not present a specific schedule.

Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-2014-0046792 (published on April 21, 2014)

The present invention is to solve the limitations as described above, and when traveling to a specific region or city, refer to data of existing users for a specific schedule of when to visit various tourist attractions or tour products of the region or city. It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for automatically recommending.

In order to solve the problems as described above, the present invention is a travel schedule recommendation service providing system, which includes a travel area information for a user's travel destination, a date to travel the travel destination, and a travel destination information for the travel destination A destination information management unit for acquiring information; A visitor information management unit for acquiring visitor information to be visited by the user and configuring schedule information including a time required for the visitor information, a start position, an end position, and schedule information; A similar itinerary search unit that searches for similar itineraries corresponding to the destination information from a travel information database; A candidate time zone list generator configured to generate a candidate time zone list that is a list of candidate time zones in which a trip to a destination included in the schedule information can be made based on the user's travel destination information and schedule information; And a candidate time display unit configured to display a candidate time included in the generated candidate time zone list on a user terminal and configure a travel schedule according to a candidate time selected by the user.

Here, the candidate time zone list generation unit compares the schedule information for the destination included in the schedule information with the date information of the user's travel destination information to determine a candidate time zone for the date to travel to the destination, and the candidate time zone If there is no other schedule information, the candidate time zone can be determined as the final candidate time zone.

In addition, the similar itinerary further includes schedule information, and the candidate time display unit considers the similarity itinerary searched by the similarity itinerary search unit and fits the following formula = travel to a destination among the entire similarity itineraries. According to the number of similar schedules made / the total number of similar schedules, the fitness may be calculated and the calculated fitness may be displayed together.

In addition, the candidate time display unit may set the value obtained by adding the fit and the time consideration function as a time zone score and display the corresponding time zone score together.

According to another aspect of the present invention, as a method of providing a travel itinerary recommendation service by the travel itinerary recommendation service providing system as described above, information on a travel region for a user to travel to, a date to travel to the travel destination, and for the travel destination A first step of obtaining travel destination information including travel type information; A second step of acquiring destination information to be visited by the user at the destination and configuring schedule information including a time required for the destination information, a start location, an end location, and schedule information; A third step of searching for a similar itinerary corresponding to the travel destination information from a travel information database; A fourth step of generating a candidate time zone list which is a list of candidate time zones in which a trip to a destination included in the schedule information can be made based on the user's travel destination information and schedule information; And a fifth step of displaying the candidate time included in the generated candidate time zone list on the user terminal and configuring the travel itinerary according to the candidate time selected by the user.

According to the present invention, when traveling to a specific region or city, a system for automatically recommending a specific schedule of when to visit various tourist attractions or tour products of the region or city by referring to data of existing users And methods.

1 is a view showing the overall configuration and environment of the travel itinerary recommendation service providing system 100 according to the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the system 100.
3 is a view showing a method of obtaining visitor information and configuring schedule information.
4 is a diagram showing an example of schedule information.
5 shows an example of a similar schedule.
6 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the candidate time display unit 50.
7 shows an example of a screen in which the degree of fitness is displayed by the candidate time display unit 50.
8 and 9 are screens showing an example in which the time consideration function is displayed together with the fitness.
10 is a flow chart showing the method of the present invention performed in the system 100 according to FIGS. 1 to 9.

Hereinafter, embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view showing the overall configuration and environment of a system for providing a travel itinerary recommendation service according to the present invention (hereinafter simply referred to as "system 100").

Referring to FIG. 1, the system 100 is connected to the user terminal 200 through a network such as the Internet, and refers to a similar schedule accumulated based on travel destination information and destination information obtained through the user terminal 200. Thus, a service for specifically recommending a schedule for traveling the corresponding destination is provided to the user through the user terminal 200.

In FIG. 1, the network is a conventionally known network composed of the Internet, a mobile communication network, a public telephone network, and a combination thereof, and the user terminal 200 is a conventionally known device such as a computer, a smart phone, etc. ) And use the travel itinerary recommendation service by sending and receiving information. The configuration of the network and the user terminal 200 itself is not a direct object of the present invention and is known by the prior art, and thus detailed description is omitted here.

2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the system 100.

Referring to FIG. 2, the system 100 includes a travel destination information management unit 10, a visit destination information management unit 20, a similar schedule search unit 30, a candidate time zone list generation unit 40, and a candidate time display unit 50. Includes.

The travel destination information management unit 10 performs a function of acquiring travel destination information including travel area information on a travel destination for a user to travel, a date to travel the travel area, and travel type information on the travel area.

The destination information may be input from a user through the user terminal 200. To this end, the system 100 provides an interface through which a user can select a destination to travel to, a date to travel to the destination, and a travel type information for the destination, and inputs the information through this Receive.

Here, the destination may be a country or a city, and the date of travel may be a date of arriving at the destination and a date of leaving the destination. Also, the type of trip may be information indicating the purpose of the trip, for example, a family trip, a honeymoon, or a business.

On the other hand, as the destination information, if necessary, it may further include terminal information of the transportation to and from the destination, arrival time / departure time of the terminal, and accommodation information.

The destination information management unit 20 performs a function of acquiring destination information to be visited by the user and configuring schedule information.

Here, the destination information means a tourist attraction that a user wants to visit at the corresponding destination. For example, when the destination is "Paris", a tourist destination such as the Eiffel Tower and Montmartre hill becomes a destination.

This can be obtained in the following way.

That is, the system 100 provides an interface through which a user can select a tour product list for a tourist destination for a travel destination to select it, through which the corresponding information can be input.

3 is a view showing a method of obtaining visitor information and configuring schedule information.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the user selects Paris as a destination, a list of tour products that can be provided in Paris is displayed, and the user can select a desired tour product from the list of tour products.

For each tour product included in the tour product list, the start position, the end position, and the required time are displayed together so that the user can select it by referring to it. Here, the time required means the total time taken when traveling the corresponding destination, which can be input by the user or selected from the estimated time required in advance in the system 100.

The starting position is a starting position (place) when traveling the corresponding destination, and an ending position is an arrival position (place) after traveling the corresponding destination.

In addition, each tour product has schedule information on whether the tour product is possible or not, and each schedule has a schedule information on whether or not this event is possible, and is displayed together with the tour product. For example, when the tour product is a museum visit product, the operating time of the museum becomes schedule information. If the user does not have a schedule for the tour product on the date of travel, the tour product may not be displayed, so that only tour products with a schedule may be displayed.

When the user selects a tour product, the system 100 configures schedule information for the tour product, that is, destination information.

4 is a diagram showing an example of schedule information.

As shown in FIG. 4, the schedule information includes a required time, a start position, an end position, and schedule information based on a corresponding destination.

In the schedule information of FIG. 4, when the user selects “Mont Saint-Michel Tour” as a destination (tour product), it can be seen that time, start position, end location, and schedule information are configured for “Mont Saint-Michel Tour”.

Here, as described above, the time required means the total time it takes to travel the destination, the starting position is the starting position (place) when traveling the destination, and the ending location is after traveling the destination It is the arrival location (place), and the schedule information refers to possible schedule information for traveling to the destination.

As described above, as described above, each tour product included in the tour product list provided through the system 100 corresponding to each visited location is stored in advance, so a specific tour product of the user (ie, If you select (Visitor Information), you can configure the schedule information for the user's destination information by using the schedule information stored for the corresponding tour product.

Meanwhile, the similar itinerary search unit 30 performs a function of searching the similar itinerary corresponding to the destination information from the travel information database 60.

As described above, the travel destination information includes travel area information for a travel destination for a user to travel, a date to travel the travel destination, and travel type information for the travel destination, and includes each of these information from the travel information database 60 Search similar schedules.

For example, if a user arrives on November 4 (Sun) in "Paris" as "honeymoon" (travel type information) and departs on Wednesday, November 7, and enters the date information of the destination information, this is Since it is a three-night and four-day schedule, the travel database 60 searches for three- and four-day schedules and similar itineraries for which the travel type is honeymoon.

The searched similar schedule includes schedule information as described above for each date.

5 shows an example of a similar schedule.

As shown in FIG. 5, it can be seen that the searched similar itinerary is "Paris" in the travel area, and the travel date is 3 nights 4 days from November 11, 2017 (Mon) to November 4, 2017 (Thu), and the type of travel is honeymoon. have.

In addition, the similar itinerary includes schedule information for each date. As described with reference to FIG. 4, it includes schedule information including information on each destination and corresponding date and time of travel for the destination.

Although only one similar schedule is shown in FIG. 5, a plurality of such similar schedules are searched, and they are used to allow the user to determine the candidate time in the candidate time display unit 50 to be described later.

On the other hand, in this case, if there are sufficiently many similar itinerary data to be searched, the amount of data to be searched can be appropriately adjusted in consideration of the travel time (season or month). If the searched similar itinerary data does not reach the preset value, the similar itinerary matched by the rest of the information is searched for except the travel type information.

The candidate time zone list generating unit 40 performs a function of generating a candidate time zone list that is a list of candidate time zones in which a trip to a destination included in the schedule information can be made based on the user's destination information and schedule information.

As described above, the destination information includes date information of traveling the destination, where the date information includes the date of arriving at the destination and the date of leaving the destination.

Considering the date information, a candidate time zone in which a destination (tour product) included in the schedule information can be made is determined.

The determination of the candidate time zone can be made through the following process.

First, by comparing the schedule information of the destination (tour product) included in the schedule information with the date information of the user's destination information, a candidate time zone for a date of traveling the destination is determined.

For example, it is said that a user arrives on "Paris" on November 4 (Sun), and enters the date information of the destination information by departing on November 7 (Wed), and visits "Mont Saint Michel Tour" (tour product) If is selected, refer to the schedule information of "Mont Saint-Michel Tour", it is possible from 6:30 AM on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so if compared with the user's date information, it will be on November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue). "Mont Saint Michel Tour" is possible. Therefore, the candidate time zone list generation unit 40 determines November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue) as the candidate time zone.

Next, it is checked whether there is no other schedule information in the candidate time zone, and if there is no other schedule information, the corresponding candidate time zone is determined as the final candidate time zone.

At this point, since the user has only selected “Mont Saint-Michel Tour”, there is no other schedule information, so November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue) are determined as final candidate time zones and included in the candidate time zone list.

At this time, if the candidate time zone has a value less than or equal to a predetermined time set in advance, it is classified into morning, afternoon, and evening and included in the candidate time zone list.

On the other hand, if the candidate time zone is the first day of the date information to be traveled by the user, that is, the arrival date, if the arrival time is entered, only after the arrival time is considered and the last day, that is, the departure date, the time to leave the city If entered, the candidate time zone is determined by considering only the previous time.

The candidate time display unit 50 displays a candidate time included in the generated candidate time zone list on the user terminal and configures a travel itinerary according to the candidate time selected by the user.

6 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the candidate time display unit 50.

In the previous example, since November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue) were created for the “Mont Saint Michel Tour” as a candidate time zone, as shown in FIG. 5, an interface displaying a travel itinerary by date is shown in a user terminal ( 200) and display the corresponding dates, that is, November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue) in different ways, and select the desired candidate time. .

In FIG. 6, since the “+” button is displayed on the two dates of November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue), the user can grasp that “Mont Saint Michel Tour” is possible on these two dates, and based on this, the user wants Choose a date.

Meanwhile, when displaying the candidate time included in the candidate time zone list, the candidate time display unit 50 considers the similar schedule searched by the similar schedule search unit and calculates the suitability of the candidate time and displays the calculated goodness together It is preferred.

7 shows an example of a screen in which the degree of fitness is displayed by the candidate time display unit 50.

Referring to FIG. 7, two dates of November 5 (Mon) and November 6 (Tue) are displayed as candidate times for "Mont Saint-Michel Tour", of which November 5 (Mon) is 65% goodness of fit , On November 6, it can be seen that the suitability of 23% is also displayed.

Here, the goodness of fit is calculated as follows.

Goodness of fit = the number of similar itineraries / tours of all similar itineraries in the candidate's time zone for the trip

That is, since the degree of fitness means the ratio of travel to the corresponding destination in the candidate time zone among similar schedules of other people, the higher the fitness, the more people traveled to the destination in the candidate time period.

As described above, the similar itinerary search unit 30 searches for similar itineraries that match the user's travel destination information. Since the searched similar itineraries include itinerary information as described in FIG. 5, the entire itinerary is referred to the entire itinerary. Among similar itineraries, it can be seen whether the trip to the destination was made in the candidate's time zone.

Accordingly, when the fitness is calculated, the fitness of 65% is calculated on November 5, and the fitness of 23% on November 6 is calculated and displayed through the user terminal 200 as shown in FIG. 7.

On the other hand, the candidate time display unit 50, as another method, when displaying the candidate time included in the candidate time zone list, calculates the suitability and time consideration function of the candidate time calculated in consideration of the similar schedule searched by the similar schedule search unit. It is also possible to calculate and add the appropriateness and time consideration function to the time zone score and display the corresponding time zone score together.

Here, the time consideration function has a predetermined constant value when one or more of the following two conditions are met, and a value of 0 otherwise.

Condition 1: If there is a registered schedule before / after the candidate's time zone, or if you move to or from the accommodation, calculate the time (or distance) to move to the start or end location of the destination from the accommodation or from the accommodation, or less than a specific value Occation

Condition 2: If the increase in the travel route due to the addition of the destination is less than a certain value compared to the time from the ending place (or lodging) of the schedule before the candidate's time zone to the starting place (or lodging) of the subsequent schedule

That is, the time consideration function is to score whether the connection time with the front-and-rear schedule is increased due to the visits of the candidate time zone in consideration of the front-and-rear schedule of the candidate time zone, and gives a higher score if the connection time is not particularly large.

8 and 9 are screens showing an example in which the time consideration function is displayed together with the fitness.

Referring to FIG. 8, when the destination is “Mont Parnas Tower”, candidate time zones are divided into A to F, and each candidate time zone is marked with a corresponding time zone score, which is a value obtained by adding the fit and the above-mentioned time consideration function.

In the example of FIG. 8, since the user selected the date for the “Mont Saint-Michel Tour” described above as November 5, it indicates that the Mont Saint-Michel Tour is selected on the date, and the “Mont Parnas Towers” is displayed on the rest of the date. The possible candidate time zones are determined in the same manner as described above, and the corresponding time zone scores are displayed for each of the candidate time zones.

The user confirms this, selects a desired candidate time zone for the "Mont Parnas Tower", and the candidate time display unit 50 configures the corresponding travel itinerary according to the selected candidate time zone.

The example of FIG. 9 is a screen for selecting a candidate time zone for the "Seine River Cruise" while the candidate time zone is selected for "Mont Saint Michel Tour" and "Mont Parnas Towers" and a travel itinerary is configured.

As shown in FIG. 9, "Mont Parnas Towers" is selected on November 4th and "Mont Saint-Michel Tour" is selected on November 5th. In this way, it is possible to determine a candidate time zone in which the "Seine River Cruise" can be made, thereby indicating that the "Seine River Cruise" is possible on November 6. At this time, the time zone scores are displayed together as described above, and the user selects a desired time zone accordingly.

10 is a flow chart showing the method of the present invention performed in the system 100 according to FIGS. 1 to 9.

Referring to FIG. 10, first, the travel destination information management unit 10 acquires travel destination information including travel area information on a travel destination for a user to travel, a date to travel the travel destination, and travel type information on the travel destination (S100). . The obtained travel destination information is transmitted to the visit destination information management unit 20 (S110).

The destination information management unit 20 obtains destination information for a user to visit at the destination by the method as described above, and configures schedule information including a time required for the destination information, a start location, an end location, and schedule information. (S120).

Next, the similar itinerary search unit 30 searches the similar itinerary corresponding to the destination information from the travel information database 60 (S140). The searched similar schedules are transmitted to the candidate time zone list generator 40 (S150).

Subsequently, the candidate time zone list generating unit 40 is a candidate that is a list of candidate time zones in which a trip to a destination included in the schedule information can be made based on the user's destination information and schedule information through the method described above. The time zone list is generated (S160), and the candidate time display unit 50 displays the candidate time included in the generated candidate time zone list on the user terminal in the same manner as described above, and travels according to the candidate time selected by the user Configure (S170).

Although the configuration of the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment according to the present invention, it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment and various modifications and variations can be implemented.

100 ... travel itinerary recommendation service provision system
10 ... Travel Information Management Department
20 ... Visiting Information Management Department
30 ... Similar Schedule Search
40 ... candidate time zone list generator
50 ... candidate time display

Claims (5)

Itinerary recommendation service providing system,
A travel destination information management unit for acquiring travel destination information including travel area information on a travel destination to be traveled by a user, a date to travel to the travel destination, and travel type information on the travel destination;
A visitor information management unit for acquiring visitor information to be visited by the user and configuring schedule information including a time required for the visitor information, a start position, an end position, and schedule information;
A similar itinerary search unit that searches for similar itineraries corresponding to the destination information from a travel information database;
A candidate time zone list generator configured to generate a candidate time zone list that is a list of candidate time zones in which a trip to a destination included in the schedule information can be made based on the user's travel destination information and schedule information; And
A candidate time display unit configured to display a candidate time included in the generated candidate time zone list on a user terminal and configure a travel itinerary according to a candidate time selected by the user
Itinerary recommendation service providing system comprising a.
The method according to claim 1,
The candidate time zone list generating unit,
By comparing the schedule information for the destination included in the schedule information with the date information of the user's destination information, a candidate time zone is determined for a date to travel to the destination, and if there is no other schedule information in the candidate time zone, the candidate time zone is determined. Itinerary recommendation service providing system characterized in that the final candidate time zone is determined.
The method according to claim 1,
The similar schedule further includes schedule information,
The candidate time display unit, considering the similar schedule searched by the similar schedule search unit, the following formula
Goodness of fit = The number of similar itineraries / travels of all similar itineraries in the candidate's time zone.
A travel itinerary recommendation service providing system characterized in that the fitness is calculated by and the calculated fitness is displayed together.
The method according to claim 3,
The candidate time display unit is a system for providing a travel itinerary recommendation service, characterized in that a value obtained by adding the fit and the time consideration function is a time zone score and the corresponding time zone score is displayed together.
A method for providing a travel itinerary recommendation service by a system for providing a travel itinerary recommendation service according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
A first step of obtaining travel destination information including travel area information on a travel destination for a user to travel, a date to travel the travel destination, and travel type information on the travel destination;
A second step in which the user obtains destination information to be visited at the destination and configures schedule information including a time required for the destination information, a start location, an end location, and schedule information;
A third step of searching for a similar itinerary corresponding to the travel destination information from a travel information database;
A fourth step of generating a candidate time zone list which is a list of candidate time zones in which a trip to a destination included in the schedule information can be made based on the user's travel destination information and schedule information; And
A fifth step of displaying the candidate time included in the generated candidate time zone list on the user terminal and configuring the travel itinerary according to the candidate time selected by the user
Itinerary recommendation service providing method comprising a.

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