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Cloud Services Aided e-Tourism: In the Case of Low-Cost Airlines for Backpacking

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The emergence of Cloud Services and Mobile Internet has influenced the society a lot, including the tourism industry. This paper proposes a design of backpacking service, not only aiming at the travelling routines, but also focusing on the low-cost airlines. This kind of service aids backpackers with an effective travelling and satisfies the price requirement. With this low-cost airline system, the backpackers can experience real e-Tourism and enjoy a better travel aided by the web information. According to the basic principles of low-cost airlines, this paper provides the backpackers with a definitely efficient way to check out a suitable flight itinerary under an acceptable price.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. This work is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60973137, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant No. NCET-12-0250, Gansu Sci.&Tech. Program under Grant No. 1104GKCA049, 1204GKCA061 and 1212RJYA003, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with Grant No. XDA03030100, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. lzujbky-2013-k05, lzujbky-2013-43, lzujbky-2013-44 and lzujbky-2012-44, Google Research Awards, and Google Faculty Award.

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

    Qingguo Zhou, Jun Hu, Huaming Chen & Rui Zhou

  2. Department of Information Management, Overseas Chinese University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Jason C. Hung

  3. ADS Spallation Target Laboratory, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

    Ji Qi & Lei Yang

  4. School of Science, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, China

    Xuan Wang

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    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

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Zhou, Q. et al. (2014). Cloud Services Aided e-Tourism: In the Case of Low-Cost Airlines for Backpacking. In: Park, J., Zomaya, A., Jeong, HY., Obaidat, M. (eds) Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8798-7_39

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