Affiliation:
1. CMR Institute of Technology, India
2. Panimalar Engineering College, India
Abstract
The travel and tourism sector is one among the important sectors that contribute or generate income to a country, which in turn raise the economy. More than one billion tourists travel to their desired international destinations as normal tourist, for their business, medical, study purpose, etc. every year contributes 9.8% of global GDP. This value represents 7% of the world total exports. Today with the natural language processing (NLP), most of the major challenges in these sectors have been addressed, which results in the increased revenue generation to the country. Moreover, NLP tries to provide a hassle-free experience to the tourist and thus improves the revenue generation. It helps to streamline the business opportunities and benefits all the interconnected industries. This chapter tries to provide the role of NLP in travel and tourism along with the challenges in this field.
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