Swiss-smart-travel is a project developed in 36h during the StartHack hackaton in 2018.
The idea behind this project was to solve the issue of multi-destination travel, mostly for people that travel to discover Switzerland. We created an API that takes as input a text query, a duration (1 day - 2 weeks) and start & end locations. As output, the API gives a list of the 10 most interesting cities regarding the text query, and a proposed tour in a subset of those cities.
We also built a front-end demo of the API usage with an interactive user interface, available at http://swiss-smart-travel.herokuapp.com/.
We selected around 50 most visited cities, then extracted the wikipedia description, and built a sort of information retrieval system based on TF-IDF and cosine similarity. After extracting the 10 most relevant cities, we construct a graph in which the edges are weighted by the average time to travel from a node to the other. We then construct a tour based on a heuristic taking into account both the score (closeness to the query) and the centrality of each node (to avoid going too far).
Install python and the requirements in requirements.txt. Then start the server from the root folder with app/backend.py. This will start a local server at 0.0.0.0:5000.
The front-end is available at 0.0.0.0:5000/index.html
The API can be called with a GET request at 0.0.0.0:5000/api/v1.0/tours
Lots of babyfoot, coffee and Gripen <3