Fuzzy based Decision Support System for E-tourism Investment Risk Analysis

Abstract

This system presents fuzzy logic based decision support system for E-tourism investment risk analysis. E-tourism is the part of e-commerce that helps to generate new opportunities to increase demand for product and services, and improve management capabilities in tourism sector. E-tourism is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in tourism which may allow operating tourism in least variable cost, least time and increasing work efficiency. There are many factors that affect to the development of E-tourism. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the system, four factors are considered. These are amount of investment, human skill, E-tourism infrastructure and instability of the regions. Using fuzzy logic technique to solve the problem of vagueness and uncertainty, it is now become important tool for decision making. These parameters are fuzzified and a fuzzy rule-based has been developed for calculating risk factor for the E-tourism investment.