Abstract:
Sri Lanka is a country with different types of
tourist destinations. However, lack of popularity to many such
attractive destinations is a major issue identified. Images of Sri
Lankan destinations are published in Social Media platforms,
often without the correct geo-location tagging. Therefore, most
of the places are not popularized among international and local
tourists. Key problem domain identified would be the inability
to recognize specific location of such images. Due to high
similarity and complex nature of images related to this field,
effectiveness of existingmethodologies has become questionable.
Focus of this research would be a suitable image identification
methodology-based model, which can identify an image based
on their destination and to provide with advanced
recommendations. Thereby, it would ensure promotion and
focus towards attractive, yet widely unpopular destinations in
Sri Lanka. However, in general this is not problem specific to
Sri Lanka, but other countries like Sri Lanka as well.
Therefore, in large, this model can be applicable to similar
other countries as well, even though data and evaluations of
this research are from Sri Lanka.
