2Es of TIS

Tourism industry could be one of the largest sources of revenue for any country. After the emergence of Web 2.0, it is also one of the largest data intensive industries in the world. Tourism‐rich countries often use Tourism Information Systems (TIS) for management of tourism‐related data. These systems are used are used on several levels of tourism stakeholder's hierarchy from data generation and exchange to intelligent decision making. Data exchange and extraction are core tasks that a generic TIS is supposed to perform. In this chapter, we discuss both of these processes with respect to TIS. We describe the importance of these processes and review how these are being dealt by researchers currently. Further, we highlight the limitations of current approaches of data exchange and extraction and identify potent future solutions that can enhance the performance of TIS in many aspects can drive future recommender systems.