Interwoven group trip itinerary development based on social footprints and crowdsourcing

A computer system for developing interwoven group trip itineraries based on social media footprints, the computer system comprising:

• a memory medium comprising program instructions;
• a bus coupled to the memory medium;
• and
• a processor, for executing the program instructions, coupled to a social media footprint-based group itinerary generation engine via the bus that when executing the program instructions causes the system to:
• generate, for each person of a plurality of people in a group, a travel interests footprint based on a social media history of the person;
• map a first travel interests footprint of a first person of the group to a first identifier in a semantic web associated with a first interest in the first travel interests footprint, the semantic web comprising a plurality of identifiers associated with interests;
• map a second travel interests footprint of a second person of the group to a second identifier in the semantic web associated with a second interest in the second travel interests footprint;
• obtain a plurality of activity options based on a provided location and time;
• perform a correlation between the plurality of activity options and the first and second identifiers in the semantic web;
• match, in response to a first correlation value above a threshold, a first activity option of the plurality of activity options to the first identifier and match, in response to a second correlation value above a threshold, a second activity option of the plurality of activity options to the second identifier;
• and
• build a first itinerary for the first person and a second itinerary for the second person by:
• adding the first activity option to the first itinerary based on the association of the first identifier to the first interest in the first travel interests footprint and on the matching of the first activity option to the first identifier and adding the second activity option to the second itinerary based on the association of the second identifier to the second interest in the second travel interests footprint and on the matching of the second activity option to the second identifier.

A computer program product for developing interwoven group trip itineraries based on social media footprints, the computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device, and program instructions stored on the computer readable hardware storage device, to:

• generate, for each person of a plurality of people in a group, a travel interests footprint based on a social media history of the person;
• map a first travel interests footprint of a first person of the group to a first identifier in a semantic web associated with a first interest in the first travel interests footprint, the semantic web comprising a plurality of identifiers associated with interests;
• map a second travel interests footprint of a second person of the group to a second identifier in the semantic web associated with a second interest in the second travel interests footprint;
• obtain a plurality of activity options based on a provided location and time;
• perform a correlation between the plurality of activity options and the first and second identifiers in the semantic web;
• match, in response to a first correlation value above a threshold, a first activity option of the plurality of activity options to the first identifier and match, in response to a second correlation value above a threshold, a second activity option of the plurality of activity options to the second identifier;
• and
• build a first itinerary for the first person and a second itinerary for the second person by:
• adding the first activity option to the first itinerary based on the association of the first identifier to the first interest in the first travel interests footprint and on the matching of the first activity option to the first identifier and adding the second activity option to the second itinerary based on the association of the second identifier to the second interest in the second travel interests footprint and on the matching of the second activity option to the second identifier.