# A Design Concept for a Tourism Recommender System for Regional Development
## 3 Conceptual Framework  
Designing a tourism product requires a comprehension of its key parameters. In this regard, a tourism product is understood as a detailed tourist route formed by an intelligent system in an interactive mode based on data mining and a matrix for travel preferences, data for the synthesis of new tourism products, and data on previously formed products of other tourists.  
In particular, the following criteria are used as parameters of a tourism product:  
**(a) Type of tourism product** (recreational; medical; business; sports; gastronomic; wildlife; wine; beach; ethnographic; religious; pilgrimage; transit; educational; children's; military-patriotic);  
**(b) Mode of transportation (transport; walking):**  
* Type of transport: personal transport (car, motorcycle, bicycle, electric transport, etc.), public transport (air, rail, road, water-motor ships, cruise ships, ferries, yachts, boats);
**(c) Traveler characteristics:**
* Identification data (passport, birth certificate, residential address and registration, telephone, e-mail);
* Financial data (bank card, account);
* Personal data (age, weight, gender, presence of physical limitations);
* Data on accompanying persons (number of adults and children, identification, and personal data);  
**(d) Preferred tourist route characteristics:**  
* Travel territory (country, region, city, locality);
* Spatial and temporal characteristics of the trip (place of departure and arrival, start/end time, number of stops (overnights) on the route, etc.);Approximate number of tourist sites (key points of the route selected on the map) to be visited for the entire time and per day;
* Average time of visiting a tourist site (depending on the choice of the type of excursion service or without it): up to 30 min; 30-60 min; 60-90 min; 90 min and over;
* Attraction fees for one visit;
* Remoteness of tourist sites from places to stop (overnight stays) depending on the type of product (e.g., for city excursions---a distance from the center, from the tourist (historical) center, pedestrian streets, museums, attractions, etc.; for out-of-town excursions---a distance from stops (roads) to POI (for backpackers and tourists with transport); for beach tourism---a distance from water resources; for gastronomic and wine tourism---a distance from exclusive dining destinations, etc.);  
**(e) Characteristics of accommodation places (stops, overnight stays):**  
Type of accommodation: city inn (hotel); resort hotel; sanatorium; rest house; recreation center; boarding house; apart-hotel; motel; hosted; country hotel; tourist base, recreation center [43]; apartment; flat; guest house; room; house; cottage; villa;  
Cost of living (a single person or a room) per day;  
Availability of basic services (parking, Internet, kitchen, shops and cafes within walking distance, number of beds, toilet, and bathroom, etc.);  
**(f) Preferred food characteristics:**  
Type of preferred dining destination (restaurants, bars, canteens, cafes, snack bars) [44];  
Type of meals at the place of residence (breakfast, half board, full board, all inclusive, ultra all inclusive, self-catering);  
Cost of one meal check (up to 500 rubles, up to 1000 rubles, up to 1500 rubles, etc. or average food expenditures per day) (Figure 1).  
Figure 1: Parameters of a tourism product.