Exploring Hypermedia Design Patterns in Web-based Tourism Information Systems

摘要

Web-based tourism information systems usually manage large amounts of heterogeneous and complex tourism information and products, thus running the risk of disorientation and cognitive overhead. To prevent these problems, hypermedia design patterns can be employed, dealing with the unique characteristics of tourism information and products like intangibility and information intensity. This paper aims at exploring hypermedia design patterns for the tourism domain, using Tiscover, a generic platform for Web-based tourism information systems as basic research vehicle. The paper investigates differences to other application domains and discusses the integration of hypermedia design patterns into the three access paradigms supported by Tiscover comprising various navigation facilities, structural search and text retrieval.