Abstract—Tourism business faces many challenges brought by modern technology (i.e. Internet). As online reservation and booking are growing into a more convenient tool for tourists, we consider developing an image recognition application which helps in promoting the local tourism in the Philippines. While several of these image recognition applications are being implemented, our system introduces another way of delivering tourism facts focusing on the selected tourist destinations by just uploading a photo. The system responds useful information needed by the tourists. The Tour Pinoy covers the top five (5) tourist destinations in the Philippines provided by the Haranah Tours Corporation, a duly licensed tourist transport operator accredited by the Department of Tourism Philippines. Based on the criteria used by the proponents and the implementations suggested, the proponents found out that Tour Pinoy helps in promoting local tourism in the Philippines.

Index Terms—tourism promotion, artificial intelligence, computer vision, image recognition

Cite: C. C. Robas, J. M. A. Adoremos, K. S. Morales, J. C. Unida, and R. S. Macatangga, "Tour Pinoy Recognition," International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 42-47, June 2014. doi: 10.12720/ijsps.2.1.42-47