Some Aspects of Systems' Development of Tourist Routes Formation and Optimization

The purpose of the article is to investigate and consider common problems of automation and informatization of activities in the tourism sphere, review and describe the author’s information system for the generation, formation and optimization of tourist routes.

Research methods are methods of decision theory, methods of optimization, methods of semantic analysis of the subject area’s basic concepts (tourism sphere). The article deals with the approaches to the generation and formation of optimal tourist routes, implemented in the corresponding author’s system.

The novelty of the research is the approaches proposed by the authors to formulate optimal tourist routes, which are based on minimizing parameters (such as risks and costs of tourism enterprises and their clients) and maximizing parameters due to customer requirements (such as route comfort, number of tourist sites). These approaches are implemented in the author’s system of formation and optimization of tourist routes. The proposed approach provides a new level of efficiency in tourism.

The conclusion of the research conducted in the article is that the formation and optimization of tourist routes using the author’s information system helps to reduce risks and additional costs for both tourist enterprises and their customers. Therefore, the search for ways of information and technological support for the processes occurring in the tourism sector (in the form of an author’s information system) is an important factor in ensuring the efficient formation of optimal tourist routes.