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AData-DrivenTool toPromoteTourism forPeoplewithDisabilities inaSmart CityEnvironment MarcoGOMESa,b andPauloNOVAISa aAlgoritmiCentre,UniversityofMinho,Braga,Portugal bCIICESI,ESTG,Polytechnic InstituteofPorto,Portugal Abstract.Disability itself isdeeplyassociatedwithmobilityconditioningand iso- lation. The combination of the two conditions rises a chain reaction of exclusion that affects a significant number ofwomen in a lot of European countries,with a particular focusonelderlyanddisabledpeople.Therefore, inclusiveandaccessible tourism need to be integrated into the future vision for tourism, especially in the contextofSmartCities.Tothisend, in thisshortpaper,wereportourongoingwork for enabling decisionmaking for accessible and inclusive tourism by using open dataand relevant informationasawayof improvingsocial and leisureexperiences forpeoplewithdisabilities. Keywords.SmartCity,Analytics,Peoplewithdisabilities,Knowledgegraphs 1. Introduction Peoplewith lowincome, living insmall and isolated (evendeveloped) regionsmayhave few opportunities to go, to travel and meet other cultures, other people. Traditionally womenareamong thosemoreaffectedby this lackofopportunities.This reality is even more significant for peoplewith disabilities. Disability itself is deeply associatedwith mobilityconditioningand isolation.Thecombinationof the twoconditions risesachain reaction of exclusion that affects a significant number of women in a lot of European countries,withaparticular focusonelderlyanddisabledpeople. In that sense,a remark- able topic here is that one of inclusive and accessible tourism, with aspects related to leisure activities, particularly around traveling, that need tobe integrated into the future vision for tourism, especially in the context of Smart Cities, environments fully bene- fiting from the recent technological advances. Smart cities rely onvarious types of data collection fromcitizens and electronic devices to supply information that city planners, techcompaniesandotherstakeholdersusetomanagecityresourcesmoreefficiently.De- spite the position that smart cities are in to providebetter infrastructure and technology for peoplewith disabilities,most smart cities donot seem tobe accommodatingpeople withdisabilitiesmuchbetter thancurrent cities 1. 1https://mobilitymgmt.com/articles/2019/03/01/accessibility.aspx Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190021 46