Tour-Guide: Providing Location-Based Tourist Information on Mobile Phones

Nowadays, sights consumption expression is improving steadily. There has been a monolithic increase in the number of tribe out on tours, for the sake of fun and entertainment. Tourism is the strongest and largest industry in the orbiculate economy. It has played a signifi ignoret exercise in boosting the citys economy and social employment. In the traditional tourism industry, phaeton reading is giveed mainly through newspaper, magazines, radio and different simple ways. It can non update and utilize timely. The poor situation of the real-time performance failed to meet peoples growing demand.The emergence of the mesh sterilises up for this shortfall. Detailed texts, pictures, videos and other counseling education be provided, so people can better understand the tourist attractions and make decision objectively. However, this approach too has some(prenominal) drawbacks. Since most people role personal computer to access Internet, they can not get development any where and anytime. lot need intelligent, professional and personalized drug abuser-centric energetic info services. The integration of the Internet and industrious communication is the main tend of the information industry.With the development of the meandering(a) communication technology, brisk telephone has been used not hardly as communication tool, but also as entertainment and office tools, providing omnipresent information access, leisure and entertainment, helping people keep in contact with their friends and so on. With portable, wireless officious devices to access Internet has become a new requirement. To use information technology to publicize and wipe out tourism, fully making use of mobile telephone to provide guidance information for peoples tour is beseeming imperative equirement of modern tour. The prevalence of mobile phones and the pervasiveness of the wireless networks make mobile a undimmed platform for personal ubiquitous computing.Current mobile s ervices are enhanced with location-aware features, providing the user with better use experience. A great number of mobile phone applications appeared recently, many of which are location-related 1, 2, 3. Location-dependent services, which upshot location-related queries, are an important class of context-aware applications. With kinds of promising pplications, like local information obtain (traffic condition, navigation messages and so on) and neighboring environment queries, such as finding the nighest restaurant, location-dependent query service will before long become an necessary part of our day-by-day lives. We will describe the design, implementation and deployment of a location-based application, named Tour- Guide, with the mobile phone as a platform. This application permitted users to get tour guidance information they need anytime and anywhere. In particular, the tourist data could be browsed or queried through an Internet map service such as Google Maps