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The fast development of powerful mobile devices and rich Internet applications have boosted the production of Mobile Web applications designed to support end-users in their daily activities using smartphones. When these applications are the result of combining multiple heterogeneous data and services, the traditional one-size-fits-all development approach is not convenient since it does not consider...
Many applications have been available in the market for helping tourists for reaching their destinations efficiently. But these applications suffer from many shortcomings including limited functionality, accuracy and features. In order to overcome these limitations, GuideMe has been developed to provide the tourists with accurate and reliable information along with the ability to customize the application...
This paper demonstrates the design, development and implementation of mobile learning in a museum setting. Learning can be more effective when it is contextualized and situated; base on this assumption we develop a database system to collect information of artifacts (trees) in a museum (an open area agriculture museum) and present to users or learners through mobile application. Information on the...
Statistical tourism data are critical to supporting tourism policy decisions. Such data are normally compiled via questionnaires or interviews, which requires both time and money, thus making such data unusable for policy decision-making to occur in real-time. To support real-time policy decision-making, we focused on person trip data for promoting tourism. The city government can reflect such data...
Developed countries set trends in types of tourism products and technologies that developing countries should incorporate in the tourism industry to allow their economies to grow. Typical types of such tourism products are the co-creation between tourism and technology, tourism and wellness and wellness and technology. Wellness involves sport participation, fitness and healthy living. This paper investigates...
We present Pythia, a privacy-enhanced non-invasive contextual suggestion system for tourists, with important architectural innovations. The system offers high quality personalized recommendations, non-invasive operation and protection of user privacy. A key feature of Pythia is the exploitation of the vast amounts of personal data generated by smartphones to automatically build user profiles, and...
Recently, interest in Japanese domestic tour has been decreasing year by year. The number of domestic trips in one year has been decreasing from 1992 to 2012. The Tourism Agency aims to promote domestic tourism for overseas people as an issue of national priority. However in Japanese sightseeing, there has been various problem in transportation. For example, there has been few information in English...
Tourism is closely connected with mobile activities. People go the tourism attractions by doing mobile within city or even country. As a tourist, mobility means put some risk for the convenience of sightseeing. For example, when the visitor visits the attractions might feel uncomfortable because crowd of people, closed attractions, or meaningless unguided tour. This paper describes an alternative...
Malaysia is a multicultural country and is known for its tourism industry. The uniqueness of Malaysian traditional games is one of the cultural aspects to promote tourism industry in Malaysia. This paper presents a mobile application that combines the use of printed media and marker-based augmented reality (AR) technology as an effective and engaging platform in promoting Malaysian traditional games...
M-Commerce is expected to play an even larger role, with over half a billion customers following the trend to shop via mobile devices by 2016. According to the Malaysian Ministry of Tourism and Culture, tourism has been identified as one of the twelve National Key Economic Area to drive the country's growth. This gave rise to this research objective which is to determine the attention ranking of Malaysians...
In recent years, several mobile devices with excellent performances have become accessible to people at affordable prices. The availability of this equipment, especially in the mobile sector, has encouraged research and development of increasingly complex applications ("Apps") for the visualization of large-scale scenes. However, 3D maps typically available through mobile version of so-called...
This paper describes the inGuide — Interactive Guide application, a context-aware tourist guide that is presently available to Android smartphones. This application takes advantage of technologies such as Augmented Reality and geolocation in order to provide contextual information in a simple and interactive way. inGuide is a modular application which provides a package management system avoiding...
With the explosion of smartphone popularity in recent years, people are familiar with mobile tourism guides. Users often spend much time to look for travel information on the Internet without user interaction on relevant websites. Generally, the tour guides lead tourists to interact with travel attractions in a group trip. This study applies an interactive model to traveling while tourists join a...
“Tour” is an emotional word to lots of people. When a person decides to take a trip, one can be classified into two types of tourists, an active and passive tourist. An active tourist has to prepare everything for the satisfactory tour. On the contrary, a passive tourist who is generally inclined to use a guided group package tour prepares less something than an active tourist. Thus, much research...
Tourism industry is expected to grow tremendously in Malaysia. Mobile technology such as smart phones can be use as a tourist recommender system. This paper proposed a collaborative awareness framework in order to design a usable mobile system. The collaborative awareness framework takes into account of tourist types, tourism activities, tourist experiences, visiting phases, mobile technology capabilities...
Applying Geographical Information System (GIS) in tourism system is nothing out of the ordinary. Years of research and effort to implement GIS been executed and it can be conclude that GIS provides promising approach to a successful tourism GIS system. The traditional tourism, tourist and tour-agent relationship now changed into dynamic means where the tour-agent able to guide the tourist although...
Although much literature exists on how technology can promote tourism industry, little is known about this phenomenon in developing countries. The existing technologies have not been able to successfully tackle the infrastructural and connectivity problems. To tackle the challenges, the use of low cost and simple technologies is imperative. This paper therefore discusses the role of wireless broadband...
Tourism studies have noted that insufficient attention has been paid to the experience and practices of the tourist. Tourism research does not help to explain the nature of modern mass tourism. The most detailed research that has been done is tourist information seeking, but the literature has tended to avoid detailed qualitative description, focusing more on broad categorizations of tourist practice...
The paper describes a location-aware travel guide prototype that was implemented into a Nokia Symbian Series 60 phone with Location API (JSR-179) support. It contains relevant travelling information that could assist users while they are travelling or when they arrive at a particular destination. The objectives of the study were to discover user preferences towards fisheye and list style menus in...
This paper presents a fuzzy logic based mobile intelligent system for effectively evaluating and selecting hotels. The uncertainty, subjectiveness and imprecision inherent in the human decision making process are modeled through the use of fuzzy numbers. A fuzzy relationship matrix between the characteristics of each hotel and the requirements of individual tourists is built leading to the use of...
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