Film-induced Tourism: A Crowdsourcing Approach

Film-induced tourism is an emerging topic in tourism studies. In this paper we addressthe problem of information gathering, which makes the creation of a structured collection of multimediaitems, annotated with geographical information a resource consuming task. The proposed approach isbased on crowdsourcing. The tasks of recognizing movie parts that are filmed outside the studios andof identifying the location where they have been filmed do not require skilled experts. Yet, generalusers need to be motivated for completing these tasks and we propose that an important driver is thereputation users may gain as experts in movies and landmarks. To this end we developed a web portalwhere users can insert new movies, vote previous insertions, annotate the movies with geographicalinformation and vote the quality of annotations.