This paper presents a comparative analysis of Continuous versus Discrete Visualisation of
tourism information. With remarkable web development in the recent years, a broad range of
tourism information is distributed over millions of websites. This is a boon as well as a problem
for the user. When information on a tour is needed, the user has to explore various web sites
and collate discrete chunks of information, we call this Discrete Visualisation. To solve this
problem we are developing an Intelligent Visual Travel Recommender System (IVTRS) that
finds information form relevant web sites and presents it as a video clip, i.e. Continuous
Visualisation. This paper presents an overview of the architecture and the prototype of an
IVTRS that presents Continuous Visualisation. A usability study was conducted - using a
prototype - with eight users comprising beginner, intermediate as well as advanced users. This
study demonstrated that users found Continuous Visualisation easier to work with and to obtain
the required information.