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

Nowadays, peoples consumption structure is improving steadily. There has been a large summation in the reduce of people out on tours, for the sake of divagation and entertainment. Tourism is the strongest and largest industry in the global economy. It has played a epoch-making role in boosting the citys economy and social employment. In the traditional touristry industry, tourist education is obtained mainly by dint of newspaper, magazines, radio and other simplex ways. It can not update and utilize timely. The poor situation of the real time performance failed to meet peoples growing demand.The emergence of the meshwork makes up for this shortfall. Detailed texts, pictures, videos and other focus information atomic number 18 provided, so people can better understand the tourist attractions and make finality objectively. However, this approach also has some drawbacks. Since most people use private computer to access Internet, they can not get information anywhere and an ytime. People need intelligent, professional and personalized user-centric mobile information services. The integration of the Internet and mobile communication is the main tend of the information industry.With the breeding of the mobile communication technology, mobile tele rally has been used not all as communication tool, but also as entertainment and stake tools, providing ubiquitous information access, leisure and entertainment, helping people keep in contact with their friends and so on. With portable, wireless mobile devices to access Internet has plough a new requirement. To use information technology to publicize and apportion tourism, fully making use of mobile telephone to provide guidance information for peoples tour is becoming imperative equirement of recent tour. The prevalence of mobile phones and the pervasiveness of the wireless networks make mobile a smart platform for personal ubiquitous computing.Current mobile services are enhanced with location-aware fe atures, 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 answer location-related queries, are an big class of context-aware applications. With kinds of promising pplications, like local information obtain (traffic condition, seafaring messages and so on) and neighboring environment queries, such as finding the hot restaurant, location-dependent query service will soon become an necessary recess of our daily 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